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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]
<https://marc.info/?l%3Dopenbsd-misc&m%3D149232307018311&w%3D2>

[old FTP servers will be retiring november this year]
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/2017/msg00001.html>

[this]
<https://twitter.com/BabyAnimalGifs/status/834206656653312000/video/1>

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