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freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 303, Issue 2

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Today's Topics:

1. Re: why BSDs got no love (Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav)


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Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:04:21 +0100
From: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <d...@des.no>
Subject: Re: why BSDs got no love
To: Han Hwei Woo <h...@pce-net.com>
Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org
Message-ID: <864onrk...@ds4.des.no>
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Han Hwei Woo <h...@pce-net.com> writes:
> 2. There is a live CD.
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso

That's a misnomer. For all practical purposes, there is no difference
between livefs and disc1 except for the lack of packages. When people
download something called a "live CD", they expect a CD that will boot a
fully functional desktop, with an option to run the installer.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no


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