Re:Where to buy the CD-ROM?
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I only have a 33'600 Baud dialup-connection to the internet and therefore do not want to download the whole stuff. Probably there would be two newer versions of each, before I finished downloading. =:-)
Actually.. NetBSD and OpenBSD (1.3.3 and 2.4) can be FTP'ed in 7-9 hours, depending on your connection (took me around 8hr each at 24kbps). It's not really likely there'd be a new version released while you were downloading, unless you're downloading the -current release.:) Dunno how long FreeBSD would take, though.
If you have the money (and/or patience), though, get a CD. If nothing else, you'd be helping them continue working on the OS.
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You make 2 disks, a boot disk and a root disk. Since your CD-ROM drive is SCSI, you'd download the appropriate SCSI bootdisk. Oh, and the CDs from CheapBytes are fine. Get a book too.
With freshmeat going down (for the time being), I put up a webpage w/ a searchable appindex script on it. It's no replacement for freshmeat (and isn't intended to be), though. It's at http://appindex.cjb.net.
While I'm at it, I'd like to thank scoop for his work and dedication to freshmeat. I'd really like to see it come back up; it's one of the best sites out there.
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Actually.. NetBSD and OpenBSD (1.3.3 and 2.4) can be FTP'ed in 7-9 hours, depending on your connection (took me around 8hr each at 24kbps). It's not really likely there'd be a new version released while you were downloading, unless you're downloading the -current release. :) Dunno how long FreeBSD would take, though.
If you have the money (and/or patience), though, get a CD. If nothing else, you'd be helping them continue working on the OS.
Bump the level up one. Usually the crap doesn't get a rating. Isn't that why it's there?
Flaming them doesn't help things along either.
You make 2 disks, a boot disk and a root disk. Since your CD-ROM drive is SCSI, you'd download the appropriate SCSI bootdisk.
Oh, and the CDs from CheapBytes are fine. Get a book too.
Can't we base criticisms or praises of a distribution on something *other* than the package management system?
Thanks. It's pointless now, however, since the Real Thing is back up (woo hoo! and thank (insert religious entity here) and scoop).
With freshmeat going down (for the time being), I put up a webpage w/ a searchable appindex script on it. It's no replacement for freshmeat (and isn't intended to be), though. It's at http://appindex.cjb.net.
While I'm at it, I'd like to thank scoop for his work and dedication to freshmeat. I'd really like to see it come back up; it's one of the best sites out there.