On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:28:01 +0200, ropers wrote > Sorry to ask a stupid question, but my Google-fu is weak: > > I've recently seen the old CDs for sale post, and then I found this > OpenBSD 2.0 release announcement: > http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive2/announce/199610/msg00001.html > > I'd like to know: > Were there ever any OpenBSD 2.0 CDs, or was 2.1 the first release > that CDs were distributed for? > > (I'm just wondering because it said "An OpenBSD CD will likely be > available in a month or so." in the OpenBSD 2.0 release announcement.)
Ropers, Google's search tool is an important aid, but it is not the be-all and end-all research tool. Viz: The first CD order availability went live on June 13, 1997, eleven days after 2.1 was released. I know this because I looked at the CVS archives for the website, and clicked on http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/index.html, and compared revisions 1.135 and 1.136. I can also find two different discussion threads on the newfangled OpenBSD CD-ROMs from misc@ the same month, just by searching misc@ archives. There were several CD-ROM discussion threads in May and June of that year in the archives. Here's the June discussion: http://preview.tinyurl.com/dd24q7
