+
+ | This is a recent (May 1997) publication from Tatsumi Hosokawa and
+others. Among computer books, it is a top-seller in Japan and
+exceeded the sales of Bill Gates' "The Road Ahead" when published
+(it was #2, this book was #1). |
+
+ | (Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, english
+ title unknown) |
+
+ | (Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, english
+ title unknown) |
+
+ |
+This is Walnut Creek CDROM's "FreeBSD Complete"
+with installation guide, manual pages and 2 installation
+CDs inside.
+ |
+
+ | This is Walnut Creek CDROM's "Installing & Running FreeBSD",
+a product which contained installation instructions and was
+shipped with each 2 CD set. It has since been replaced by
+the larger "FreeBSD Complete" book.
+ |
+ | This book was recently published (early 1997) in Taiwan.
+Its title is "FreeBSD: introduction and applications"
+and the author is Jian-Da Li.
+ |
+ | This is the "Getting Started with FreeBSD" from Fuki-Shuppan.
+Other than the standard installation guide and Japanese environment,
+it emphasizes system administration and low-level information (such
+as the boot process, etc.) FreeBSD-2.2.2R and XFree86-3.2 on
+CDROM. 264 pages, 3,400 yen.
+ |
+ | The "Personal Unix Starter Kit - FreeBSD" from ASCII. Includes
+history of Unix, a guide to build a Japanese documentation processing
+system and how to create ports. 2.1.7.1R and XFree86-3.2 in CDROM.
+384 pages, 3,000 yen.
+ |
+
+
+
+ | This is InfoMagic's BSDisc, containing FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 on
+a single CD. This is the only example I have which had cover art.
+ |
+
+ | This is the original 4.4 BSD Lite2 release from UC Berkeley,
+the core technology behind much of FreeBSD.
+ |
+
+
+ | The first of Laser5's "BSD" series. Contains FreeBSD-2.0.5R, NetBSD-1.0,
+XFree86-3.1.1 and FreeBSD(98) kernel. |
+
+
+ | The second of Laser5's "BSD" series. From this version, the CDs come
+in a standard jewel box. Contains FreeBSD-2.1R, NetBSD-1.1,
+XFree86-3.1.2 and 3.1.2A, and FreeBSD(98) kernel (2.0.5).
+ |
+
+ | This is the Laser5 Japanese edition of the
+FreeBSD CDROM. It is a 4 CD set.
+ |
+
+ | This is the only FreeBSD CD Pacific Hitech produced before merging their
+product line with that of Walnut Creek CDROM. PHT now also produces the
+FreeBSD/J (Japanese) CD product. |
+
+ | This is the cover disc from the Korean magazine.
+Note the creative cover art! The CD contains the FreeBSD 2.2.1 release
+with some local additions. |
+
+ | This is it - the very first FreeBSD CD published! Both the FreeBSD
+Project and Walnut Creek CDROM were fairly young back then, and you'll
+probably have little difficulty in spotting the differences in production
+quality between then and now.
+ |
+
+ | This was the second FreeBSD CD published by Walnut Creek CDROM and also the
+very last on the 1.x branch (ref USL/Novell lawsuit and settlement). |
+
+ | This unusual CD is something of a collector's item now given that almost
+all existing examples were systematically tracked down and destroyed.
+
+An artwork mishap has this CD dated for the wrong year, and on the spine
+"January" is also misspelled as "Jaunary", just to increase the embarrassment
+factor. Ah, the perils of turning in one's artwork just hours before leaving for
+a trade show.
+ |
+
+ | This is the fixed-up version of the FreeBSD 2.0 CD.
+Note that the color scheme has even been changed in the corrected version,
+something unusual for a fixup and perhaps done to distance it from the
+earlier mistake. |
+
+ | The FreeBSD 2.0.5 release CD. This was the first CD to feature Tatsumi Hosokawa's daemon
+ artwork. |
+
+ | The FreeBSD 2.1 release CD. This was the first CD release on the 2.1 branch
+(the last being 2.1.7). |
+
+ | The FreeBSD 2.1.5 release CD. |
+
+ | The FreeBSD 2.1.6 release CD. |
+ | The Japanese version of 2.1.6. This was the first and last Japanese
+localized version published by WC, responsibility for that product then
+transitioning to a team led by Tatsumi Hosokawa and sponsored by
+Pacific Hitech and Laser5.
+ |
+
+ | The FreeBSD 2.1.7 release CD. Also the last CD released on the 2.1.x
+branch. Done primarily as a security fixup for 2.1.6
+ |
+
+ | The FreeBSD 2.2.1 release CD. This was the first CD on the 2.2 branch.
+ |
+
+ | The FreeBSD 2.2.2 release CD.
+ |
+
+ | An early release SNAPshot of 2.2 (done before 2.2.1 was released).
+ |
+
+
+
+ | The FreeBSD mailing list and newsgroup archives, turned into HTML and
+semi-indexed by thread. This product ran for 2 releases and then stopped
+with a thud once it became obvious that there was simply too much data to
+deal with on one CD. Perhaps when DVD becomes more popular...
+ |
+
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