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NO MORE CD RELEASES FOR OPENBSD, NO MORE FTP
FOR DEBIAN
Nicolas Herry
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2017/04/27
1 No more CD releases for OpenBSD, no more FTP for Debian
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The times they are a-changing...
[OpenBSD will no longer be released as a CD set]. The team
realised that spending almost a month preparing the CD wasn't
going to be sustainable in the future, as this brought very
little money in comparison to the time invested and what can be
obtained through other channels, like straight donations. 6.0 is
thus the last OpenBSD release available on CD, and will probably
be quickly considered a collector's item worth a fortune on the
back market. Probably.
Debian is also shaking up old habits and decided the [old FTP
servers will be retiring november this year]. FTP usage has
decreased over the years, and new means to download the Linux
distribution have achieved enough popularity that obtaining the
software via FTP can now be considered a thing of the past.
Also, [this].
[OpenBSD will no longer be released as a CD set]
[old FTP servers will be retiring november this year]
[this]