From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 1 10:43:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3345816A420 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:43:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A876813C467 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:43:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from js.berklix.net (p549A570C.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.87.12]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m11AhU4B044018; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:43:30 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m11AhOuc090788; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:43:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.org) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m11Aj3nD021436; Fri, 1 Feb 2008 11:45:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200802011045.m11Aj3nD021436@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Bachilo Dmitry In-reply-to: <200802011537.53078.root@solink.ru> References: <200802011537.53078.root@solink.ru> Comments: In-reply-to Bachilo Dmitry message dated "Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:37:52 +0600." Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:45:03 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 on DVD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:43:33 -0000 Bachilo Dmitry wrote: > --===============1475038008== > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="koi8-r" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline > > R29vZCBkYXksIGV2ZXJ5Ym9keS4KQXMgZmFyIGFzIEkga25vdyB0aGVyZSB3aWxsIGJlIG5vdyAz > IGluc3RhbGxhdGlvbiBDRHMgZm9yIEZyZWVCU0QgNy4wLCBJIAp3b25kZXIsIGlzbid0IGl0IGEg > dGltZSB0byBiZWdpbiBtYWtpbmcgdGhlIEZyZWVCU0QgaW5zdGFsbGF0aW9uIERWRHMuIFNpbnNl > IAptb3N0IHBlb3BsZSBhbHJlYWR5IGhhdmUgdGhpcyBkcml2ZSBhbnl3YXksIHdoeSBub3QgbWFr > ZSB0aGUgRFZEIGFsIGxlYXN0IGFzIAphbiBvcHRpb24/IEl0IHdvdWxkIHNvIGVhc2UgdGhlIGlu > c3RhbGwgcHJvY2Vzcywgd2hpY2ggbm93IHJlcXVpcmUgdG8gY2hhbmdlIAp0aGUgQ0RzIG1ha2lu > ZyB0aGUgYXV0b2luc3RhbGwgaW1wb3NzaWJsZS4KCldoYXQgZG8gSSB1bmRlcnN0YW5kIHdyb25n > PwotLSAK8yDV18HWxc7Jxc0sIAriwd7JzM8g5M3J1NLJygry1cvP18/EydTFzNggz9TExczBINPJ > 09TFzc7PyiDJztTFx9LBw8nJCu/v7yAi68/N0MHOydEg88/Myc7LIgpyb290QHNvbGluay5ydQo= My EXMH doesnt seem to repond well above, clicking on reply. So, Mouse copying off screen that is: > Good day, everybody. > As far as I know there will be now 3 installation CDs for FreeBSD 7.0, I > wonder, isn't it a time to begin making the FreeBSD installation DVDs. Sinse > most people already have this drive anyway, why not make the DVD al least as > an option? It would so ease the install process, which now require to change > the CDs making the autoinstall impossible. > > What do I understand wrong? This could be a FAQ ! There are already others rollings DVDs of BSD, I can't remember URLs, look on maybe DesktopBSD.org based on FreeBSD or ? & Others been doing it for years too for commercial sale. As FreeBSD can't give up rolling CDs, rolling DVDs would just be More work for the re@ team, so it's their choice if they want to do yet more work. I guess they might not as they've just pushed out 6.3 & still working on 7.0 :-) Nothing to stop others writing scripts on top of or diffs to src/release to generate DVDs, ( I did similar years back for my own CD set extensions) but it's work maintaining changes to src/release & ports build, & then you need to distribute your images. More unpaid work. Would be attractive if FreeBSD were a a commercial company. (& some of re@ work I think for CD/DVD distributors), so maybe already available via eg FreeBSDMall or whoever else if you pay $$. Additionaly, free ftp mirror sites might not be keen on larger incremental loads of DVD size rather than CD size. Click via Getting FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/where.html to http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm and you can "Pre-Order FreeBSD 7.0 DVD" BTW Anyone know if Dimitry should change his mailer sender config &/ or If I need a config tweak to my EXmh-2.7.2 On FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE, to avoid the mess above on clicking "Reply-All". (No I'm not looking for "Abandon EXMH, use my better XYZ", but if there's a config tweak to EXMH ? ) -- Julian Stacey. BSD Unix Linux Net Consultant, Munich. http://berklix.com