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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!uunet!uunet.ca!uunet.ca!fw.novatel.ca!sidney.novatel.ca!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: BSD CD-ROM : Walnet Creek or Infomagic ? Date: 4 Jan 1995 04:32:54 GMT Organization: NovAtel Communications Ltd. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3ed8dm$9qt@fw.novatel.ca> References: <3e8t0q$gnp@vishnu.jussieu.fr> <1995Jan3.002220.531@robkaos.ruhr.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sidney.novatel.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Robert Schien (robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de) wrote: : : which BSD CD-ROM would you recommend ? : : I understand that the Infomagic CD has both NetBSD and FreeBSD, but is the : : FreeBSD distribution as complete as the one found on the Walnut Creek CD ? : : If this is the case, I'll go for the Infomagic CD since it's cheaper :-) : BTW: the InfoMagic CD is almost full (689 MB), whereas the Walnut Creek : contains only 417 MB (it's one of the smallest WC CDs I ever had). Well, I feel should mention that I've seen the previous version of Jon Cargill's BSDisc and I was very impressed. It actually came with 2 CDROM's each packed with various binary/source versions of NetBSD, FreeBSD, XF86, and tons of binary/source packages for both NetBSD and FreeBSD. (I'm not affiliated with BSDisc and I still don't speak for NetBSD) (is anyone getting tired of my disclaimers?) -- hpeyerl@novatel.ca | NovAtel Communications Ltd. hpeyerl@beer.org | <nothing I say matters anyway> On your birthday 10/02 322 BC: Aristotle dies of indigestion. [hmm]