From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 10 18:56:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16470 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (root@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA16454 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ncb05@uow.edu.au) Received: from banshee.cs.uow.edu.au (ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au [130.130.188.1]) by wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with SMTP id LAA04478 for ; Mon, 11 May 1998 11:56:24 +1000 (EST) Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 11:56:22 +1000 (EST) From: Nicholas Charles Brawn X-Sender: ncb05@banshee.cs.uow.edu.au To: 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, Ted Stein wrote: > 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). > [snip] While we're on the subject of freebsd cd sellers, is anyone aware of a distributor outside the US that sells one with eBones and non-ear restricted crypto? I kinda feel a pinch of guilt when it blares at me "des[ ] NOT FOR EXPORT" at install. :) But only a *pinch*. ;) Nick -- Email: ncb05@uow.edu.au - DE 30 33 D3 16 91 C8 8D A7 F8 70 03 B7 77 1A 2A http://rabble.uow.edu.au/~nick - public key available on request. Nicholas Brawn - Computer Science Undergraduate, University of Wollongong. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message