From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 2 16:36:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40D1B14FAB for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:36:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02064; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:29:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909022329.QAA02064@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Colin Eric Johnson Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: suggestion: distfiles CD In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:17:58 MDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 16:29:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > If FreeBSD is coming out only every four months, might people be > > > interested in a "distfiles/packages" CD set on the alternate four months? > > > The work would be minimal, compared to a regular snapshot. I, at least, > > > would pay for it. Hell, I'd subscribe. It's call the "FreeBSD Toolkit", and it's 6 CDROMs. > another solution, or part of this solution, might be to offer a CD image > that could be downloaded and burnt. Given some of the more active user > groups in some areas this might be a great way to get CDs out to folks. It > could cost as little as $1.00 for CDs in that fashion. I don't know if > there are things in/on the distfiles CD(s) have copyright restrictions. Yeah. Download all the distfiles, instead of just the ones you need. Marvellous. 8( -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message