Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 16:23:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Stanaford <rsstan@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1 disks Message-ID: <20000706232352.7387.qmail@web3102.mail.yahoo.com>
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--- "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> wrote: Aye.. makes sense. Despite the additional storage gained my DVD, I have not seen the influx of DVD titles like we've been promised... in terms of the general PC end user and not specifically the Unix community. In fact, the only thing I've used my DVD drive for is pumping a movie out to the TV. If it were not for the backward compatability to CDROM... I would think I'd screwed myself. I'll certainly buy a copy when we finally get the FreeBSD core, source, ports, and distfiles on DVD. To think, having all of that on one disk at my fingertips. It'd be really nice in a server farm application. Put the DVD drive on an NFS filesystem and you'd be set as long as you didn't need bleeding edge changes and updates. I'll certainly a DVD application when the means to pursue it becomes more realistic. -Richard > Actually, in talking to Bob Bruce at Usenix, he said that they hadn't > seen enough demand for a DVD version of FreeBSD to justify doing a DVD > pressing. > > It didn't sound like it was a cost issue, but rather a demand issue. > > I'm sure if they could determine that there is enough demand for a DVD > version, they would do it. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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