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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>