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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: 2.1.6 CDROM?
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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 22:50:12 GMT
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Dave Littell (dlittell@onramp.net) wrote:
: Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
: > 
: > A. Karl Heller wrote:
: > >
: > >    I was wondering if anybody has gotten the 2.1.6 pressing of FreeBSD?
: > > I havn't received it yet.
: > 
: > It hasn't shipped.  I have absolutely no idea when it will ship, so
: > please don't ask.  Maybe January, maybe February, maybe not at all since
: > if it gets delayed much longer, I'm simply going to ask Walnut Creek
: > CDROM to kill it.  4 months after network release is simply too long,
: > and 2.2 will be out by then.
: > 
: 
: Please don't kill the CDROM release of 2.1.6.  Based on your discussion 
: of 2.2 vs. 2.1.6 (being the last and most stable of the 2.1-era 
: releases) we decided to use 2.1.6 on a development project and would 
: really rather have it available on CDROM.

I agree...even if it only goes to subscribers,it should be made available
on CDROM given its different user market from 2.2!