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Oh cool -> FreeBSD 4.8 i386 on 8.5 Gb DVD $ 32.11 <- hehe
FreeBSD 4.8 i386 on 8.5 Gb DVD $ 32.11
10% of sales revenue from this product is donated to The FreeBSD Foundation to support further development of FreeBSD.
This DVD is manufactured by UNIXDVD.COM LTD on state of the art professional equipment. It is packed in an attractive "Amaray" case, just like a movie DVD, with cool artwork and booklet. There are 8.5 gigabytes of software on this disk. The disk contains FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE with all installation files and most packages from FreeBSD ports collection in source distfiles form as well as precompiled packages. Of course, this DVD is bootable. Virtually all available space, 8.5 Gb, on this DVD is filled.
There are some technical details: The disc contains 6788 precompiled packages which take 3.8 Gb, 8139 distfiles which take another 4.3 Gb, rest of the space to 8.5 Gb is taken by FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE installation files. Provided that you have DVD drive installed on your system this DVD behaves exacly like a regular official installation CD. The most notable difference is some delay at the moment when sysinstall reads list of available for immediate installation packages. No wonders, there are thousands of those.
With this DVD you have possibility to install FreeBSD with any packages you wish without swapping CD/DVD once and even without being connected to the Internet at all. This disk appears to be the best value for money offer available for immediate shipping on the Internet at the moment.
During mastering of this DVD all the precautions were taken in order to ensure that no malisious code made it to the disk. 100% of mastering process has been done on pristine just installed FreeBSD 4.8 RELEASE on the system which was physically not connected to the Internet. All the files were checked against officially published MD5 cheksums. Should we also mention the fact that people with more than 10 years experience of working with FreeBSD and computer security were involved in production process. No proprietory software was used during mastering of this disk from the very beginning up to the stage when master disk images were sent to the factory on DLT tapes.
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