From owner-freebsd-newbies  Thu Sep  9 17:37:50 1999
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From: ba793@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hamid Dastkar)
To: jramirez@digicomsystems.net
Subject: Re: Free BSD CD-sets
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Reply-To: ba793@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Hamid Dastkar)
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Reply to message from jramirez@digicomsystems.net of Thu, 09 Sep
>
>   I'll be quick and to the point.  Is there currently an effort to get 
>FreeBSD to users
>that may not be willing to fork out the $40 (which I feel is a very small 
>price to pay)
>to try/test it out without having to download it?  I know there was (not 
>sure currently)
>a Linux effort to get CD sets to users.
>
>  Basically all it did was list those who had CD sets they didn't need/use 
>anymore
>and those interested in the OS could contact the person offering the CD set
>  (or even installation help) and get it for free.  I know that I 
>personally have plenty of previous
>release sets (1 rev behind release) that I don't use and would be willing 
>to send to some newbie
>or curious in hopes that they like it and decide to use/support it.  I'm 
>sure there are others
>out there with sets that are collecting dust.
>
>Comments anyone?
>
>     -Jeremy Ramirez
>
>

I like your idea and definitely like to get my hand on the latest 3.x
to install and then pass it back or pass it on (as the joke goes:
no bogartting :-), however need to get the latest PC first :-)
As a matter of fact, I like to have Linux on it as well.

ciao,
hamid


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