Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 18:18:44 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal for CD reorganisation for 4.0 Message-ID: <23754.950494724@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2000 17:01:09 PST." <20000213170109.V60507@shale.csir.co.za>
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It's something we've been considering. :) > Hi, > > I was thinking (I know, I know, I shouldn't do that, it's bad for me > ;)... > > Since we now have 3000+ ports, what are the chances of getting a special > "FreeBSD Ports Distfiles" CD-ROM subscription set, which would just > contain the distfiles? Since this set would be fairly low maintainance > (just dump a copy of the FTP site onto CD :) it could be released at a > low cost and with a fairly frequent update interval. I'm sure plenty of > people would go for something which worked out to around $5 per month, > including a lot of Linux people, since the CD would not have anything > specific to FreeBSD on it. NetBSD and OpenBSD people should also be > interested. > > This would also make the 4.0 set easier to get onto 4 disks, and it > would do out of date slower (since the packages are prebuilt for that > snapshot of -CURRENT). > > Another advantage is that we might be able to get rid of some NO_CDROMs, > since the distfiles CD set would be around the cost of the media. > > Regards, > -Jeremy > > -- > | If I was not so weak, if I was not so cold, > --+-- If I was not so scared of being broken, growing old, > | I would be. I would be... frail. > | - jars of clay / much afraid / frail > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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