Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:57:08 +0100 From: Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD Message-ID: <201102130857.08402.milu@dat.pl> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinOLuYE=fw3he0QYTffCzPWg5tr9w6BXYUun9TY@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimZR3fP_vyR-68gB4xwtK5CccG1ryrgk4DZRRNv@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTinOLuYE=fw3he0QYTffCzPWg5tr9w6BXYUun9TY@mail.gmail.com>
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Sunday 13 of February 2011 08:12:05 Odhiambo Washington napisa=B3(a): > My question is: WHY need 7 DVDs??? DVDs?? Even M$ does not do such a crazy > thing with its bloat-ware!! FreeBSD ships 1 DVD. > What is it that this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ships in those 7 DVDs? I think the answer for your first question is on http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/index.en.html#which-cd And talking about GNU/kFreeBSD: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/kfreebsd-amd64/ch04s01.html.en "Although a full set of binary packages requires several CDs, it is unlikel= y=20 you will need packages on the third CD and above. You may also consider usi= ng=20 the DVD version, which saves a lot of space on your shelf and you avoid the= CD=20 shuffling marathon." They are writing about CD's but I think the same is about DVD's containing = the=20 most wanted packages on the first image(s). Of course that you don't need full set of DVD's. You can even use a small=20 netinstall cd to get Debian. AFAIR on the last discs there were sources for= =20 the packages from the first several discs. So the release version of the=20 Debian contains not only packages but the sources too and it's all included= in=20 these DVD's. It's like release of FreeBSD + all distfiles on the CD/DVD med= ia. Maciej
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