ISO names (Was: 4.9-RC2 is on ftp-master..)

Daniel C. Sobral dcs at tcoip.com.br
Wed Oct 8 10:23:25 PDT 2003


Murray Stokely wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:38:13AM -0300, Jo?o Carlos Mendes Lu?s wrote:
> 
>>I've been studying the availability of FreeBSD ISOs on edonkey networks, 
>>and, surprise, I just noted that the ISO has no "FreeBSD" on its name.
>>
>>What do you think of changing the names to:
> 
> 
> I think it is redundant since the files are living in /pub/FreeBSD.
> If you move them someplace where FreeBSD it no longer part of the
> namespace, then sure, it probably makes sense for you to add FreeBSD
> back into the name.

Well, you are thinking of FTP. João is referring to P2P applications, 
some of which are particularly well suited to the fast distribution on 
very large files, and in those the concept of the "directory" the files 
are in may be non-existent.

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