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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What to install with FreeBSD? Date: 18 May 1996 22:37:49 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4nljft$1l5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4nf96k$m8t@news.indy.net> <4ngkrb$irb@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19646 comp.os.linux.misc:104557 james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) wrote: > >I've considered getting the Walnut Creek CD-ROM, which I'm sure would > >really simplify things for me, but I don't feel like shelling out $40 for > >it only to find that I really would rather continue running Linux. > > I understand there are other places where you can get it more cheaply - > WC sells it at a premium deliberately and uses the extra to support > the FreeBSD project (hope I got that right! 8-) Well, Walnut Creek is indeed supporting the FreeBSD project, but their reason for the higher price is rather that they wouldn't like to compete with their own CD-ROM resellers, and thus keep the price for direct shipping rather high. (The 25-CD price is much lower.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)