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From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 28 Dec 1995 12:21:22 -0800
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In article <4bujan$6is@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, Jeff Aitken <jaitken@vt.edu> wrote:
>Walnut Creek offers a FreeBSD subscription service.  When a new version
>of FreeBSD is released, you'll receive it from them, at a cost of around
>$25 per release, if I'm not mistaken.  You might want to consult
>http://www.cdrom.com/titles/subscrip.html for more information.

Also, Infomagic has a disk called BSDisk which contains FreeBSD
and NetBSD.  The latest disk has FreeBSD 2.1 and NetBSD 1.1.

The main disadvantage of this disk is that the daemon on the front
isn't nearly as cute as the daemon on the Walnut Creek disk. :-)

cjs
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