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From: rsi@netcom.com (Rajappa Iyer)
Subject: Re: COMMERCIAL: InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource August 1996
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"Joel Goldberger" <Joel@InfoMagic.com> writes:

>> Ditto. Other than Slackware and Red Hat, most of the other CDs are of
>> limited use, IMHO... putting FreeBSD on them would make them *much*,
>> *much*, *much* more useful.
>> 
>> Anybody out there listening?

>We're listening.  Its always difficult to know what folks are interested
>in.  We get as many requests for some obscure program included only deep in
>the Sunsite archive as we do for the inclusion of FreeBSD & NetBSD on a
>disc set with Linux.

>What would folks think of a combo deal that included our Linux set, BSD set
>(NetBSD and FreeBSD) and possibly the updated Standards disc with RFC's and
>other networking docs, now in PDF format ?

If you bundle the standards in, you'll have my order the day you
announce it. :-) 
-- 
<rsi@netcom.com> a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer.  New York, New York.
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