First Official CD Release of FreeBSD 205
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."
Re:this is nice (Score:4, Informative)
I normally don't respond to trolls, but what the hell.
I believe the story is supposed to be "First official FreeBSD 4.5 CDs." Walnut Creek had been supporting FreeBSD development and creating CDs forever. I think FreeBSD CDs may even predate Windows CDs.
What Timothy SHOULD have used as title .... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Pre-Ordering is stupid... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Native Java ? (Score:1, Informative)
Native JDK1.1.8 has been available for as long as I have used FreeBSD. I have used the native 1.2.2 and 1.3.1 jdk's, but you have to build them from source and accept Sun's licensing agreement.
Does the install work properly again ? (Score:2, Informative)
Marko No. 5
Re:so this is instead of BSDi ? (Score:2, Informative)
I have been a FreeBSD CD purchaser for a long time, since the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.1 days. At that time part of the money for the CD's went back into the project. Since the Wind River take over, they have stopped putting money back in.
The guys over at Deamonnews have started publishing a magazine and started doing the CD subscriptions. They have said that they will put money back into the project. So I dropped by Wind River subscription and decided to put my money with these guys. I'm also a subscriber to the magazine and have been very happy with it also.
It is easy to donate (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.freebsd.org
Even if you're not a programmer, there are other ways to contribute to FreeBSD. The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit organization for which direct contributions are fully tax deductible. Please contact bod@FreeBSDFoundation.org for more information or write to: The FreeBSD Foundation, 7321 Brockway Dr. Boulder, CO. 80303. USA
Re:Native Java ? (Score:4, Informative)
_NOT_ 1st CD. 1st CD from DN. (Score:4, Informative)
This announcement marks the first CD published by Daemon News, which took over the CD distribution after Wind River (who did 4.4 after inheriting it from BSDi (who did 4.3 and 4.2 as well I think after inheriting it from Walnut Creek CDROM (who did all of them up to 4.2))) stopped.
The CDs have always been "Official"ly mastered by Jordan Hubbard as the Release Manager. The only difference is that the only
Hopefully the majority of people know this (at least the first part), but the story title could be confusing to those who don't, or those who have limited memory capacity.
Important clarification on the wording of this (Score:5, Informative)
Just to clarify this for everyone else, there is no longer any "official" CD publisher of FreeBSD in the sense that they're somehow blessed or endorsed by the FreeBSD project. The project releases all the ISO images one would need to build a full 4-CD boxed set, that being the benchmark product standard established by Walnut Creek CDROM, and simply leaves it up for grabs as to who publishes them in whatever packaged form.
The ISO images themselves are called "official" simply to denote the fact that they're the authoritative reference for FreeBSD release bits. Anyone who publishes something which doesn't deviate too much from this standard is more than free to call the resulting product "FreeBSD" and sell it/give it away/rub it on their bodies/whatever as such.
Needless to say, there also are and have been multiple publishers of FreeBSD CDROM products, so this isn't exactly the "first" such distribution of FreeBSD on CD. But hey, this is Slashdot so two errors in one sentence is actually a fairly high standard when taken in context.
Re:Time for the BSD fans to sing praise.... (Score:2, Informative)
I've been subscribed to the company formerly known as Walnut Creek's FreeBSD subscription service since somewhere in the early 2.2.x's. Although I only used about every fourth release of the CDs I received, the money was going where I wanted it, when I wanted it.
If you haven't been beyond Linux, FreeBSD has a lot to teach you. It is a strong server OS.
Re:extras (Score:2, Informative)
I'll be getting mine via CVSup (Score:2, Informative)
It can take less than an hour on a fast computer with SCSI drive.
Re:Wrong (Score:1, Informative)
Of course I have to put anonymous coward now so the fucking Linux fags don't ruin my karma for defending myself.
Re:just the cd? (Score:2, Informative)