Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 00:35:25 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: prankster83@geocities.com (Luigi Montanez) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Project Location Message-ID: <19970324003525.JW10407@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970323181708.11279A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Mar 23, 1997 18:20:19 -0500 References: <19970323222729.HB01913@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.GSO.3.95.970323181708.11279A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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As Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > Maybe it's best to just point to [ftp|www].freebsd.org and say > "Walnut Creek". That's probably worst. Walnut Creek CD-ROM is sitting in Concord, California. About 10 miles away from Walnut Creek... ftp.freebsd.org is located in downtown San Francisco, another 15 miles away. (www.freebsd.org is freefall itself however, thus located in Concord.) Other FreeBSD hosts are located on very different sites, like ns.freebsd.org. Don't forget the *.<country>.freebsd.org sites, they are clearly a part of the project, too (and doing us a very good service, regardless of whether they provide FTP, CVSup, mail, or other services). Also, while we are grateful for WC's contributions to the FreeBSD Project, their relation to us is not that tight. It's merely a symbiosis: they provide the project with Internet access, and some hardware, and they get a good operating system for their server machines, plus a little profit from selling CD-ROMs with our product. Note that a symbiosis is not a bad thing, neither in biology, nor for us. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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