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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!psgrain!agora!agora.rdrop.com!sundans From: sundans@agora.rdrop.com (Craig Keenan) Subject: Re: Order now or wait till August release? Sender: news@agora.rdrop.com (David Greenman) Nntp-Posting-Host: agora.rdrop.com Organization: RainDrop Laboratories Message-ID: <DC9FuE.KFL@agora.rdrop.com> References: <3uu72f$os3@i-2000.com> <3v1jhu$e6r@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 07:08:37 GMT Lines: 22 I have what I think would be a good suggestion. I just perused the ol' ftp.cdrom.com (which IMVVVVHO kicks major ass!!) and saw TON of ports and packages for FBSD 2.05 and up... Now if I sit down and do my math, I don't think it's possible for pack all of this wonderful stuff on one CD :( When 2.1 is released, how about packing as much as possible on one main-CD (Full source for FBSD, X; pine,perl,tcsh,bash,..) and making a second, more robust 'Free-Unix-Packages-You-Want-But-Didn't-Have time to get' CD available with nothing but FreeBSD ported stuff (maybe some diffs for both Linux and FreeBSD, double whammy). I think there are a lot of us out here who want to ie.. try out suchandsuch CAD package, maybe dink around with some GUI builders, play some X games, hop around with Mosaic/Netscape, play with postscript, get those Amiga mods to play (during the whole thing would be nice), [dream dream] and etc. within a short period of time. The main problem for most of the people I know (and myself) is that download all of this stuff off the 'net takes time. Having a CD of the various stuff would be very handy. Probably would sell, too, if that's of any importance? :) Just my $.02 CK