Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.4 CD (was Re: [jkh@zippy.cdrom.com: FreeBSD 3.2 to be given to attendees of USENIX Technical Conference])
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 05/02/1999 18:36:57
Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> Note that Cheapbytes has been selling NetBSD/i386 1.3.2 and 1.3.3
> CDs for quite a while now; they'll probably bring out a 1.4 CD.
> Unfortunately, it's probably going to be domestic-only, as the
> current ones are. Although it might be worth asking them to do an
> exportable version instead; there's not much missing aside from
> kerberos 4 in the non-domestic version.
Totally agreed. In fact, I encourage Herb and whomever else to build
exportable only CDs. Even people with slow modems can download the
domestic set they need in minutes -- it is tiny, and generally useless
anyway.
Perry