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#! rnews 1586 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Upgrading Date: 18 Jun 1997 20:36:31 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 22 Message-ID: <01bc7c2a$e3136120$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <EBw6oA.J1C@nonexistent.com> <5o4p68$5de$1@bofh.noc.best.net> <EBxFCu.Gv6@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43145 Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> wrote in article <EBxFCu.Gv6@nonexistent.com>... > > Make world? That sucks I just spend $40 on this CD ... now I have to > download everything and remake it? :-) Happens to all of us. Don't forget, FreeBSD is NOT a commercial app. Many of the newer FreeBSD releases have _broken_ things in the new release that worked in older ones. (such as my Buslogic 742a EISA card) You could find yourself in a situation in the future where a new release won't run on your hardware because of an introduced bug, and you will be very happy to have that CD so you can use it to figure out what the difference between the older working code and the newer non-working code is. The best way to protect yourself is to get onto the subscription service, that way you get the CD's as soon as they are for sale.