From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 10 17:36:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05488 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:36:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cheddar.netmonger.net (ted@cheddar.netmonger.net [209.54.21.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA05472 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ted@taki.net) Received: from localhost (ted@localhost) by cheddar.netmonger.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA14255; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:35:54 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cheddar.netmonger.net: ted owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:35:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Ted Stein X-Sender: ted@cheddar.netmonger.net To: "Joseph M. Scott" cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform In-Reply-To: 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 On Sun, 10 May 1998, Joseph M. Scott wrote: > > Actually my understanding is that there is another company > selling FreeBSD cds, Cheap Bytes I believe is what it's called. I > personally have never compared the two, but I as I understand it they are > basically a more stripped down set compared to Walnut Creek's set. I > don't know for sure, but I do recall a discussion about it at one time, > either in the newsgroups ( comp.os.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc if I recall > correctly ) or on one or more of the freebsd lists. > That is correct. Cheap*Bytes does sell FreeBSD CDs. > > This is a little different than what I understand is happening > with Cheap Bytes, they are putting together their own distribution I > believe. I would not claim to know details as to what's going on, I'm > sure there are others with a better understanding of what that > relationship looks like. > That is semi-correct. Cheap*Bytes does cell a $2 CD with the latest -release on it. I doubt that they make their own distribution. They also sell what Walnut Creek does, for about $20 less (in reference to the 4 CDs and Greg's book). Ted Stein http://www.taki.net CGI/Backend ted@taki.net taki solutions Web Design & Hosting "What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message