Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 01:41:11 -0700 From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Statement regarding FreeBSD release ISO images Message-ID: <3E2E5927.2020804@btc.adaptec.com>
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All, There seems to be some confusion created by choices that we made for the 5.0 release regarding ISO image availability. To refresh, from FreeBSD 4.4 to 4.7, we made available 5 iso images for i386 and alpha. This consisted of a mini-disc1 that contained only the bits needed for installing, a full disc1 that contained the mini-disc1 contents plus a collection of high-profile packages, disc2 which contained a live filesystem plus more packages, and discs 3 and 4 which contained 1.2GB of even more packages. Starting with 5.0, only 2 or three discs were made available for each architecture. This included the normal mini-disc1, a disc1 containing packages from the print-cdrom-packages.sh release script (this was not done for pc98 and ia64), and a disc2 containing only the live filesystem. The reasons for this change boil down to this: space and economics. We have 5 architectures now, so mirroring nearly 3 GB of images for all 5 becomes quite prohibitive for the donated space and bandwidth that is our mirror system. We are all grateful for their service, so we try to show some consideration in return. The other reason, economics, is that providing bascially a full 4-disc CD set for free download makes people less likely to buy from our vendors. The FreeBSD project would suffer greatly without those vendors. So again, we try to show them some consideration. Future 5.x releases will follow the same philosophy. I'm not leading the 4.x releases so I cannot speak for certain there, though I suspect that they will follow the same route. Thanks, and go buy some 5.0 CD's =-) Scott Long The Release Engineering Team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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