Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 16:28:37 +0100 From: Mike Doyle <relyod@cooperationireland.org> To: walter@pelissero.org Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Availablity in UK (WAS Re: is distribution sinking?) Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20010514162837.00831930@199.107.2.1> In-Reply-To: <15103.63012.350812.154664@hyde.lpds.sublink.org> References: <3AFFED74.A2EDE0C1@Silver-Lynx.com> <200105141406.PAA08601@pelissero.org> <3AFFED74.A2EDE0C1@Silver-Lynx.com>
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At 16:13 14/05/01 +0100, Walter C. Pelissero wrote: > > I might have been misunderstood. With my statement I didn't want to > say that FreeBSD is a bad OS because not well distributed elswere than > within the US. As I said it's not a technical issue that made me > think about switching OS, but simply the unavailability in the place I > happen to live (London). This doesn't involve any opinion on the > quality of the OS itself. I found that Public Domain Software ( http://www.pdsl.com/ ) are a fairly reliable re-distributor in the UK. They accept CC orders, and postage from them costs quite a bit less than from WC/BSDi in the USA. They got their shipment of 4.2 CDs from WC/BSDi about 6 weeks after it was released in the USA. <>< ============================================================= ><> Michael Doyle email: relyod@cooperationireland.org Network Administrator personal email: relyod@indigo.ie Co-operation Ireland http://www.cooperationireland.org/ Phone: +353-1-661 0588 Fax: +353-1-661 8456 ********************************************************************* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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