On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:41:01AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
As you noted, it's based on 4.6, so the contents are a year old. If
you don't mind getting year-old versions of ports, then go for it.
The new PowerPak is based on 5.1 and will be shipping in 2 weeks. It
includes 10 CDROMs of
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 09:09:07PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
I posted a message a few days ago regarding my frustrations to obtain an
up-to-date PowerPak for FreeBSD 5.1. Because I don't have broadband, I
really would like to have the entire ports collection on CD-R.
Unfortunately, the
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 05:41:01 -0700, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:37:48PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1.
I had presumed that this would give me a pretty complete desktop setup.
Alas, I was wrong. A lot of
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 06:11:03AM -0400, Jud wrote:
As you noted, it's based on 4.6, so the contents are a year old. If
you don't mind getting year-old versions of ports, then go for it.
Kris
Is there a possibility that some of the older ports may not build or run on
top of 5.x?
Yes,
Rob,
I can download the Ports collection and burn to DVD or CD-R. Would you be
willing to pay for this?
Will
--- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:37:48PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1.
I had
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:37:48PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
I recently ordered and received the 4-CD set of FBSD 5.1.
I had presumed that this would give me a pretty complete desktop setup.
Alas, I was wrong. A lot of very commmon apps are missing, such as
Xemacs and Mplayer. It's
