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Re: GNU Stuff on CD

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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:39
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In article <1805v7INNkfu@agate.berkeley.edu> jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
>In article <2946@ucl-cs.uucp> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
>>Sun Microsystems supply GNU on CD, don't they?
>
>No, but the Sun User Group does, as do several other groups and companies.

Just about every CD-ROM containing general-purpose Unix software, and even
many special-purpose CD-ROMs (just to fill up the available space),
contains GNU stuff and X11.  It's probably harder to find CD-ROMs *without*
them.

-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Subject: Re: GNU Stuff on CD
Date: 1 Sep 1992 22:39:16 GMT
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