From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 14 7:15:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from athena.za.net (athena.za.net [196.30.167.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFE837B422; Mon, 14 May 2001 07:15:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jus@athena.za.net) Received: from jus (helo=localhost) by athena.za.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 14zJ7U-0001fU-00; Mon, 14 May 2001 16:14:44 +0200 Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:14:44 +0200 (SAST) From: Justin Stanford X-Sender: jus@athena.za.net To: "Walter C. Pelissero" Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is distribution sinking? In-Reply-To: <200105141406.PAA08601@pelissero.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Perhaps commercial distribution is not up to scratch, but it is still as easy as ever to get the ISO image and make one's own CD in as large a quantity as one's heart desires - or simply download the distributions of choice and use mkisofs or something similar to create your own image, or do an FTP or other type of install. -- Justin Stanford 082 7402741 jus@security.za.net www.security.za.net IT Security and Solutions On Mon, 14 May 2001, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > I'm writing this as a sort of open letter to the FreeBSD community > because I belive my concerns may be shared by a big part of it. > > Last year I decided to discontinue my subscription to the FreeBSD > CDROM. I've been subscribed since almost the first CDROM issue (on > single media at that time). My decision wasn't easy and didn't come > out of technical or religious motivations. It was mainly bad customer > support. > > Actually, the problems arised one day when I received a letter stating > that Walnut Creek had problems with my credit card and they where > expecting the payment of the last shippment (items I never received). > > Well, not a big deal. I mailed the required informations and asked > informations about the never-delivered CDs. No answer. Ok, I assumed > the subscription would come in effect starting with the next issue. > Nope. > > Since then I never received anything (but I haven't been charged for > anything) and all my e-mails have been ignored. Ok, I let my > subscription got frogotten. > > Recently I tried to buy a 4.3 distribution from a local store (London, > UK) and while they had all the releases up to 4.1 they told me they > had problems with the last one. They suspect this is due to the > recent take over of BSDi (once again). > > I don't know if FreeBSD is distributed by anyone else but WC/BSDi. My > impression is that currently the FreeBSD distribution is slowly > sinking. > > In the meanwhile it turns up that NetBSD and OpenBSD CD distributions > are more easily available than FreeBSD so I see myself forced to > switch to one of them. > > -- > walter pelissero > http://www.pelissero.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message