Date: Thu, 26 Jan 95 23:46:20 EST From: "HAU,CHUNG FAI,MR" <BQ5S@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA> To: <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Availability of SoftWare? Message-ID: <26JAN95.25674206.0150.MUSIC@MUSICB.MCGILL.CA>
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Hello folks. I have a few questions regarding the availability of software for FreeBSD 2.0. First is about drivers. I got a cdu33a Sony CDROM, which has the for it under Linux. Is it possible to use the CDROM drive under BSD. Second, I got the Jan 1995(4?) FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM from Walnut Creek The base system installs fine after copying them to my DOS partition. But the packages on the CDROM do not seems to work well... At least ome of them are not functional... And the amount of software on it can't compare to Linux ones... which the most recent I got is from InfoMagic which has 3 CD roms filling with a lot more software than the FreeBSD 2.0 one. As a Economics major... I can't say I am experienc- ed in compiling software, that is why I reinstalled Linux =( which I don't really like as it gave me a shakely appearance ( Look at how ast their kernel is coming out!) And also BSD gave me more resemblance SunOS than Linux does... Therefore I make a suggestion to CDROM vendors and the FreeBSD team to expand in the amount and easeness of software se... Don't tell me to ftp... I am very bad at finding programs on fferent nets(read ftp sites.) and also collecting them on a set of CDROM seems a good idea to me(with a 14.4Kmodem link.. ftping is a pain) I am here also to post a question as to if there exists some FreeBSD CDROMs that are comparable to the Linux ones in amount of softwaare on it if I am nto aware of their existance? Sorry, this is not a flame post... just a wanna-be BSD user expressing his concerns... Sincerely hopes the sucess in FreeBSD(and other free OS of course) Samuel C. F. Hau
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