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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!netcom.com!rsi From: rsi@netcom.com (Rajappa Iyer) Subject: Re: COMMERCIAL: InfoMagic Linux Developer's Resource August 1996 Message-ID: <rsiDwLxMv.9pv@netcom.com> Organization: Society for Promulgation of Cruelty to the Clueless References: <cola-liw-840449190-28464-0@liw.clinet.fi> <4vh1qd$ocq@news.inforamp.net> <rsi.840717201@fragola> <01bb9115$7d199570$101380d0@Peabody> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 20:16:07 GMT Lines: 24 Sender: rsi@netcom23.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:124639 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:26001 "Joel Goldberger" <Joel@InfoMagic.com> writes: >> Ditto. Other than Slackware and Red Hat, most of the other CDs are of >> limited use, IMHO... putting FreeBSD on them would make them *much*, >> *much*, *much* more useful. >> >> Anybody out there listening? >We're listening. Its always difficult to know what folks are interested >in. We get as many requests for some obscure program included only deep in >the Sunsite archive as we do for the inclusion of FreeBSD & NetBSD on a >disc set with Linux. >What would folks think of a combo deal that included our Linux set, BSD set >(NetBSD and FreeBSD) and possibly the updated Standards disc with RFC's and >other networking docs, now in PDF format ? If you bundle the standards in, you'll have my order the day you announce it. :-) -- <rsi@netcom.com> a.k.a. Rajappa Iyer. New York, New York. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. --Carl Sagan, "Contact"