First Official CD Release of FreeBSD

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."

So what's "guaging?"

[KC7GR]

It sounds vaguely naughty. Is it something one can do in public without getting arrested or heckled?

I think they meant to say 'gauging.' Simple (and easy-to-do) transposition.

Re:this is nice

[javilon]

" I think FreeBSD CDs may even predate Windows CDs"

Do you mean that Windows CDs could eat FreeBSD CDs? That would give a new meaning to market competition!

Re:*BSD is dying

[fredbsd]

It's funny. I have been able to moderate for some time now but I never did. Now when I want to, I don't have the ability. Go figure.

How can anyone in their right mind score this as "funny"?

I hate to be the bearer of bad news to this guy, but FreeBSD is far from dead. It lives on in Mac OS X (at least parts of it). Moreover, BSDi was purchased by Wind River (yes, that Wind River). They will eventually producte an embedded version of BSD.

Why can't people just get the facts straight?

I don't like to reply to flamebait/troll trash but this just got my goat.