Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:06:39 -0400 From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> To: haikal@subdimension.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Has the foretold fragmentation of Linux begun? Message-ID: <20020821100639.A26175@blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <20020821021026.41265.qmail@web11808.mail.yahoo.com>; from wyldephyre2@yahoo.com on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 07:10:26PM -0700 References: <20020820095718.A20131@blackhelicopters.org> <20020821021026.41265.qmail@web11808.mail.yahoo.com>
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[[cc trimmed so people don't see this repeatedly]] On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 07:10:26PM -0700, Haikal Saadh wrote: > If only I could agree on that...I tried to roll my own cd a while > back, but gave up when I found out that I had to get a Gig-ish from > CVS (Handbook mentions that)! > All i wanted was a cd with freebsd built from the dource i had, and > with the packages/ports I already had, but nah. left cvsup running > overnight on my dialup and it still wasn't done, so nah. Shame, that. Yes, building a release takes a lot of disk space and bandwidth. I would suggest that building your own Linux distribution with the same features that FreeBSD has would require a similar amount of space, however. ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons Absolute BSD: http://www.AbsoluteBSD.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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