From owner-freebsd-announce Sat May 1 2:44:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A218B14FCC for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 02:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA97432 for ; Sat, 1 May 1999 02:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: announce@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD toolkit now shipping from Walnut Creek CDROM Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 02:44:22 -0700 Message-ID: <97428.925551862@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm quite pleased to announce that our first 6 CD toolkit for FreeBSD is now available and shipping from Walnut Creek CDROM. Since this is a special product, it won't be sent automatically to people on subscription plans and needs to be ordered separately. The cost for this product is $39.95, please see: http://www.cdrom.com/titles/freebsd/bsdtool.phtml for ordering information (note: the site still notes the release date as "TBA" and can be ignored in that respect; I've sent an update request in to the web maintainer). The FreeBSD toolkit contains the latest binary "snapshot" releases of 2.2-stable, 3.1-stable and 4.0-current as of March 27th, 1999. It also contains a full 4.0 snapshot for the Alpha platform which is considerably more stable (and installable) than the 3.1-RELEASE for that architecture. In addition to the snapshots, the latest 2.2.x packages and some 3.1 packages (all material released after 2.2.8/3.1) are included as well as the most up-to-date distfiles for the ports collection, applying to all brancies. The CVS repository on the toolkit is also "live" in fully unpacked format and can be used directly from the CD by following the provided instructions for using read-only repositories. Finally, the most up-to-date XFree86 3.3.3.1 (containing patches for 3DLabs cards, among other fixes) is also included, along with the latest documentation and www.freebsd.org information. This product is aimed at the FreeBSD developer and power user and will be produced fairly regularly from now on (2-3 times a year). - Jordan This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message