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From: chuck@ccrc.wustl.edu (Chuck Cranor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD
Date: 3 Dec 1995 01:15:17 -0600
Organization: Washington University,  St. Louis MO.
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In article <49qa85$q80@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>If a BSD user group member is complaining about lack of access, can you 
>imagine a common joe like you or I getting access to it?

With OpenBSD one can simply set the CVSROOT enviornment variable
to "anoncvs@anoncvs.openbsd.org:/cvs" and get read access to the
OpenBSD cvs tree -- no special account required.   [assuming you 
have IP access and a recent version of cvs installed (e.g. 1.6)]    
A "common joe" should be happy with that?

FreeBSD's sup and CTM service sound pretty good too (pretty quick
sup scan cycle).

cheers,
Chuck
-- 
Chuck Cranor, Graduate Student
Computer and Communications Research Center
Washington University, St. Louis MO  USA
E-Mail: chuck@maria.wustl.edu / cranor@udel.edu