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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:42:05 +0900
From: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD. Should I buy or download?
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 04:05:09 +0000
SB <beastie@thirdfloor.fsworld.co.uk> spake thus:

> Hi there,
> 
>                                      Is it best to buy a boxed FreeBSD? 
> or download it?
> 
> Steven.
> 

As others have pointed out this really depends on your BW but thinking a
little past that buying the disk sets does contribute financially to the
project and having them on hand when you are not able to download from
the net is kinda handy. I think the distro is pretty reasonable compared
to a winblows license so it's up to you.

HTH

-- 
Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net>