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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. First official cd set?? by coolcast · · Score: 0, Troll

    I already have 'official' cd boxes with FreeBSD.. at least the back cover says "Berkeley Software Design, Inc." along with their address.
    (for example, a CD with ISBN 1-57176-272-8)

    So there's no news, I guess? I saw a loada new mico$oft hardware on other sites though.. -oh but we ignore them unless we can bad-mouth them, I guess.

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  2. Re:Sigh. This submission is almost completely wron by SirSlud · · Score: 4, Troll

    I think you're the one that read this wrong.

    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.

    our which means, their, which means Daemon News. So its Daemon News' first time offering 4.5 on CD. So yeah, it's not news, but the submission isn't wrong. What bothers me about the way things are going, submissions are turning more and more into (community-level, granted) ads.

    Ah well.

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  3. finally on CD! by wardk · · Score: 0, Troll

    this is simply amazing, FreeBSD FINALLY on CD. Sure beats the 60+ floppy disk distribution I've been forced to use over the years.
    </sarcasm>

    Geez, who writes these bonehead headlines?

  4. Re:Incorrect by BasharTeg · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uh, you're a moron, so let me help you out. OpenBSD has ALSO copyrighted their CDROMs. You can't *distribute* them. FreeBSD has copyrighted their CDROMs, you can't SELL them. See the difference jackass ?

    Don't mod me down for defending myself, I refuse to post this as Anonymous Coward.

  5. Re:Incorrect by Dehumanizer · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, even if you were right, you'd still be a rude, pimple-faced Anonymous Coward.

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