Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:43:01 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: cpghost@cordula.ws (cpghost) Cc: hildebeb@mts.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, gldisater@gmail.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server Message-ID: <200703080943.l289h1Qd033664@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20070308085221.GA19569@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>
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cpghost wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > That's pure speculation (and quite paranoid). The daemon > > image is still visible on many FreeBSD.org web pages. > > In fact, no less pages than before the contest, and there > > is no indication that it might change. > > However, you've dropped it in favor of the "sextoy" on the > FreeBSD 6.2 DVD case cover (Lehmanns/GUUG, Jan. 2007). That was the decision of the designers at the marketing department of Lehmanns (I'm only responsible for the text on the back of the box, not for the overall design). Those people have near zero technical nor historical knowledge about FreeBSD. > Sure, it's not an > "official" DVD, but it does appear in bookstores and is often > the first encounter by newbies to FreeBSD :-(. I wish it was. :-( In fact, the past issues of the Lehmanns edition of FreeBSD (including the ones where there still was a large Beastie on the front of the box) had rapidly decreasing sales numbers. It's probably because many people now have fast internet access (cable, DSL, whatever) and prefer to down- load the ISOs and packages instead of buying a DVD-ROM. We were lucky that the GUUG agreed to sponsor the 6.2 issue, otherwise Lehmanns would have been forced to stop its support of FreeBSD, and the DVD for 6.2-Release would not exist today. I have no idea what will happen with 6.3 ... If nobody buys 6.2, then it's probably the last one. Best regards Oliver PS: For people who don't know at all what we're talking about, here's a link: http://www.lob.de/cgi-bin/out?isbn=3865411886 The page text is in German, I'm afraid, but at least you can see the picture of the DVD box (front side only, though). -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing." -- Dick Brandon
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