From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 08:13:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72B4106566B for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:13:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from milu@dat.pl) Received: from jab.dat.pl (dat.pl [80.51.155.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFE68FC12 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:13:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jab.dat.pl (jsrv.dat.pl [127.0.0.1]) by jab.dat.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488A85A; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:57:05 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at dat.pl Received: from jab.dat.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by jab.dat.pl (jab.dat.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Beala1ixxKd2; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:57:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from snifi.laptop (77-255-248-103.adsl.inetia.pl [77.255.248.103]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by jab.dat.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 00F1335; Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:57:00 +0100 (CET) From: Maciej Milewski To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:57:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-PRERELEASE; KDE/4.5.5; i386; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201102130857.08402.milu@dat.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:13:45 -0000 Sunday 13 of February 2011 08:12:05 Odhiambo Washington napisa=B3(a): > My question is: WHY need 7 DVDs??? DVDs?? Even M$ does not do such a crazy > thing with its bloat-ware!! FreeBSD ships 1 DVD. > What is it that this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ships in those 7 DVDs? I think the answer for your first question is on http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#which-cd And talking about GNU/kFreeBSD: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/kfreebsd-amd64/ch04s01.html.en "Although a full set of binary packages requires several CDs, it is unlikel= y=20 you will need packages on the third CD and above. You may also consider usi= ng=20 the DVD version, which saves a lot of space on your shelf and you avoid the= CD=20 shuffling marathon." They are writing about CD's but I think the same is about DVD's containing = the=20 most wanted packages on the first image(s). Of course that you don't need full set of DVD's. You can even use a small=20 netinstall cd to get Debian. AFAIR on the last discs there were sources for= =20 the packages from the first several discs. So the release version of the=20 Debian contains not only packages but the sources too and it's all included= in=20 these DVD's. It's like release of FreeBSD + all distfiles on the CD/DVD med= ia. Maciej