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Subject: Re: Status Report on 2.2.6 Giveaway CD's 
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At 06:52 PM 10/3/98 -0400, Open Systems Networking wrote:
 
>When brett installed FreeBSD and booted it up it did
>NOT load popper. Popper is not part of the bin distribution or ANY other
>part of FreeBSD. 

No, but it put QPopper on a convenient menu that made it trivial to pick
WITHOUT KNOWING WHETHER IT WAS PART OF FREEBSD OR NOT.

If one is going to distribute a disk like that, at the very least one should
put a warning sticker on it saying something like the following:

  "Version 2.2.6 is not the latest release of FreeBSD, and some significant
   security problems have been found both in FreeBSD itself and in some
   third-party programs on this CD. A list of these problems can be found
   at http://xxx.yyy.zzz/foo.html. You can upgrade from this version to the
   latest versions of FreeBSD and third party utilities by... [insert
   relevant instructions here]."

After all, we can't expect the new user to know what he or she is doing, nor
to have strong system administration skills.

--Brett


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