Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 18:03:28 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net>, "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: CyberPsychotic <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status Report on 2.2.6 Giveaway CD's Message-ID: <4.1.19981003175847.04225a70@mail.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810031849070.16904-100000@orion.webspan.net > References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810031542380.3679-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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At 06:52 PM 10/3/98 -0400, Open Systems Networking wrote: >When brett installed FreeBSD and booted it up it did >NOT load popper. Popper is not part of the bin distribution or ANY other >part of FreeBSD. No, but it put QPopper on a convenient menu that made it trivial to pick WITHOUT KNOWING WHETHER IT WAS PART OF FREEBSD OR NOT. If one is going to distribute a disk like that, at the very least one should put a warning sticker on it saying something like the following: "Version 2.2.6 is not the latest release of FreeBSD, and some significant security problems have been found both in FreeBSD itself and in some third-party programs on this CD. A list of these problems can be found at http://xxx.yyy.zzz/foo.html. You can upgrade from this version to the latest versions of FreeBSD and third party utilities by... [insert relevant instructions here]." After all, we can't expect the new user to know what he or she is doing, nor to have strong system administration skills. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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