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- From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
- Subject: Re: 386BSD + LINIX + GNU + X11R5 on CDROM - let us know what you want!
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <JKH.92Dec2030349@whisker.lotus.ie> <jcargill.723416044@cs.wisc.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:26:38 GMT
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- In <jcargill.723416044@cs.wisc.edu> jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) writes:
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- >jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
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- >>I am working in association with Hypermedia Concepts, Inc. to produce
- >>a CDROM for release in the late-January/mid-February timeframe.
- >>My initial plan is to provide one CD with the following contents:
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- >>386BSD (0.1) + patchkit + ??? (unpacked)
- >>Linux 0.95(?) + ??? (unpacked)
- >>X11R5 (PL17) + XFree86 1.1 (unpacked)
- >>X11R5 contrib (compressed tar)
- >>GNU sources (compressed tar)
- >>Various miscellaneous utilities (compressed tar)
-
- [etc....]
-
- >My reason for this is that I think a *really* cheap 386bsd
- >distribution would be a real boon to the 386bsd community. (The same
- >goes for Linux, though I'm not as familiar with that community)
- >If cds are cheap, more people will buy cdrom drives, and we can ship
- >new distributions even cheaper.
-
- >>Also note that while several other CD's have been/are being offered
- >>for 386BSD and Linux, I'm not doing this CD in an effort to compete
- >>with them. My main focus in producing a CD that offers good value for
- >>money (packed full) and is very aggressively priced so that students
- >>and other traditionally penniless interest groups can get in on the
- >>UNIX revolution [grin] as cheaply as possible.
-
- I've noticed everytime this project is mentioned, it's mentioned as a
- join 386BSD/Linux disc. While this may be necessary to get the extra
- market share to make it really inexpensive, I simply have no desire to
- have any Linux code sitting around, and never will.
-
- If it were feasable, I think the space on the disc would be much
- better spent if we could come up with seperate CD-ROMS for 386BSD and
- Linux. This would allow us to put more on each ROM besides the base
- operating system, and not have a bunch of stuff filling up the disc
- that many of us will never touch. Just my thoughts on the matter...
-
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