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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."

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  1. This is a load of marketing garbage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I got an "Official" FreeBSD-2.2.2 CD set sitting on my shelf. That goes way back to '97. It may be the first "official" cd set since the latest corporate shuffle, but it certainly isn't the "first" official CD set ever produced.