Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 23:19:24 -0500 From: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@venux.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Randall Hopper <aa8vb@pagesz.net> Cc: Tommy Hallgren <thallgren@yahoo.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1R ISO CD Image ?? Message-ID: <4.1.19990218231644.00a48d80@mail.venux.net> In-Reply-To: <40389.919387740@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <Your message of "Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:54:18 EST." <19990218195418.A2540@ipass.net>
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If you get the FreeBSD subscription from WalnutCreek then the 4-disk set is only $25 bucks!! Plus they send it to you as soon as it is available, it's great! I have been receiving FreeBSD to my mailbox since the 2.0.1-Release ;) Matthew At 05:29 PM 2/18/99 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> True. Seems like the last one was mirrored to other FreeBSD dist sites >> though (thank goodness! As is wellknown, access to ftp.cdrom.com out here > >If it was, I didn't know of any. I specifically stuck it in incoming/ >so that I wouldn't get shot by mirror sites wondering where 2.4GB of >extra space suddenly went. > >> I wonder if WalnutCreek might consider a "FreeBSD Lite" version of each new >> RELEASE which is just CD#1 for $5-10. Being a Joe-user, that's all I ever > >I've asked this and they don't much like the idea since it makes it >extremely hard to turn a profit at those sorts of margins. FreeBSD is >not enough of a "volume" product that you could make enough just on >sheer quantity alone. Frankly, we have no idea how Cheapbytes makes >any money at $4.95. > >- Jordan > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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