From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 24 20:27:30 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id UAA09606 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:27:30 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA09596 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 20:27:21 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA27055; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:27:37 +0800 Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 11:27:37 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: FreeBSD Double CD-ROM set? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A couple of friends new to FreeBSD brought up this point and I saw it go by on the newsgroup too. Since Satoshi is diligently working at cleaning up our ports/packages collection, would it be possible for Walnut Creek to sell a "FreeBSD 2.1 Collections CD-ROM" supplement as well as a double CD set (2.1 installation + Collections)? Not everyone has Ethernet or a T1 to the local mirror site. Most people are probably on a timed 14.4k SLIP/PPP connection to their ISP. It would make sense for these folks to drop $20 or whatever and get 500 megs of precompiled binaries and source for their new FreeBSD machine. Linux distributions are famous for this "throw-in-everything-including- the-kitchen-sink-and-let-the-user-sort-it-out" approach. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org