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First Official CD Release of FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the since-1994 dept.

Chris Coleman writes: "Daemon News is pleased to announce the availability of pre-orders for FreeBSD 4.5. This will be our first release of FreeBSD on CD. We will be using the official FreeBSD 4.5 ISOs created by the FreeBSD project. The expected release date for FreeBSD 4.5 is January 20th. We expect to have CDs available two weeks after that. We are taking pre-orders at this time to help gauge the number of CDs we will need to produce. You can pre-order CDs here. CD subscriptions are available here. Vendor pricing will be handled through cylogistics.com."

2 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. yay. by lnxslak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    woo no more isos. now even people with dialup can use FreeBSD, lol j/k ;) I think this is a great step in further justifying a great O/S which i use regularly.

    lnkslak.

    --
    Fighting for Peace, is like Fucking for Virginity.
  2. so this is instead of BSDi ? by johnjones · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I have an ok knowledge of Unix's (the vendor supplied ones) my question is BSDi did that die in the hands of the wrs takeover or where did it come from ?

    FreeBSD looks quite nice and I like the idea of the ports system

    but what are its high's and lows ?

    regards

    john jones