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From: ziggy@village.instaview.com (Ziggy Stardust)
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
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jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Jeff Aitken) wrote:

>Ziggy Stardust (ziggy@village.instaview.com) wrote:
>: 	But at least linux people CAN get a quarterly CD... It would be nice
>: to ahve more options for Free/NET BSD.....I might even switch myself
>: to a bsdish if i could get some CD's....

>Walnut Creek offers a FreeBSD subscription service.  When a new version
>of FreeBSD is released, you'll receive it from them, at a cost of around
>$25 per release, if I'm not mistaken.  You might want to consult
>http://www.cdrom.com/titles/subscrip.html for more information.

>-- 
>Jeff Aitken
>jaitken@vt.edu

	Its more like $40, but i was thinking more along the lines that linux 
people have a choice...*bsd seems to be only WC, in teh cdrom world...
Not 'bad' but if infomagic, and others..( btw I do have WC's cd....)

Sorry about the poor wording from before....



			Ziggy