(Archive Copy) Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Whats your flavour?

Rowan Wainwright-Smith Rowan at teleaudit.com
Tue Aug 6 09:29:06 EST 2002


Guys....

If it is any help, I have all 9 (YES!!! 9 ) CD's of Redhat 7.3 Pro here...  I can bring them down if  you like.... however, I have no lappy etc,, :(

Let me know...

R



Matt Chipman wrote:

>
>>For those that don't know,
>>FreeBSD 4.5 is old
>>4.6 is old.
>>4.6.1 is due for release in a day or two if it isn't out already.
>>
>>Debian's latest stable release 3.0r0 (woody) which is only a few weeks old
>>already needs 7 security related updates. (12.5mb)
>>
>
>Without this thread degenerating into a OS war which it is certainly
>heading, I want people to have the oportunity to look at OS's they may not
>normally have access to. Not be worried about how old or new the OS is.  All
>these OS are in use today by many many people and are current enough to try
>without fear.
>If you have an Open BSD image please bring it along
>
>All these OS can be patched up to the latest version once installed with
>Security fixes in place.
>
>-Matt
>
>>I might bring an OpenBSD image to even it out a little :)
>>
>>-ProFX
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Matt Chipman" <mkchipman at optushome.com.au>
>>To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
>>Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 11:01 PM
>>Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Whats your flavour?
>>
>>
>>>Just a note for those interested,  i will be bringing a laptop with a
>>>wireless card and http server to deliver the following to whoever wants
>>>
>/
>
>>>needs them.
>>>
>>>(In no particular order of course!)
>>>
>>>Freebsd 4.5 iso (disk1) (unix)
>>>Mandrake 8.2 iso (disks 1,2,3) (linux)
>>>Debian Woody iso (disks1,2,3,4) (linux)
>>>
>>>I may be able to get Red Hat by Friday if my netstats drop enough.
>>>
>>>Its about 5.5 gig of data if you have the room (or you want to clear it)
>>>
>>>If you don't know what an iso image is, it is a cd image that it is not
>>>useable without first buring the image to a cd rom.
>>>
>>>Hopefully this might help the bandwidth challenged amongst us :) and
>>>
>might
>
>>>get some more nodes up or on their way at least!
>>>
>>>cheers
>>>
>>>-Matt
>>>
>>>

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