[rescue] fuck you Theo

Mike Nicewonger twmaster at twmaster.com
Tue Apr 30 15:45:23 CDT 2002


On Tuesday 30 April 2002 03:45 pm, you wrote:

>
> you mean the one where you can already download the bits seperately, or as
> one big ISO chunk?  doesn't make much of a difference, now does it?

Sure does. Each CD has 3-5 arch types on it. So why DL an entire 650 MB when 
you only need ~150 MB?

>
>
> course it would be nice if they hadn't broken OpenBSD's ability to boot
> from tape on vax since i wouldn't need the damn CD at all.
>
> > Personally I buy the CD sets. Nice to have them at the ready to do an
> > install. And this helps the OBSD project. Just because you find yourself
> > at
>
> i'm not generally an OBSD user, i'm a NBSD user.  i have full CD sets of
> NetBSD scattered all over the house.  i don't mind buying the media.  in
> fact, i like buying the media to help support the project if the project is
> good and offers me something i need.  i do have a problem with someone
> spending the time and effort to do something and then not share it.  a
> large portion of the people who will buy those CDs will buy them is there
> is a downloadable ISO or not, since buying the CDs is about more than just
> getting some CDs.

SO after that rant I am wondering why you aren't just using the NetBSD CD's 
you have?

Mike N



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