From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Re: CD-ROM NeWS Date: 18 Apr 1993 17:27:28 GMT
For those of you holding off ordering from jana@canrem.com, I just
got the first issue and it is great! Basically, it looks like the
ftp directories from a mirror site! However, since this only contains
150MB or so of linux stuff, so some of the neat stuff is missing.
However, that is why there are 5 more issues in a years subscription.
For the price it is great, if just 2 issues out of the 6 this year are this
good, it is well worth the cost of subscription! In addition to all
this good linux stuff (it has already allowed me to save 34MB of hard
disk space I was using) there is about a 250 MB section of NeXT stuff.
I'll probably be to lazy to take this CD to work to try it on a NeXT
machine, but I found a good portion of this stuff is handy to have
with Linux. Just to mention a few things I've found under the NeXT
section:
Lots of Cooking Recipes (That saved me the price of a cookbook.)
"Green Eggs and Ham", and a couple of other Dr Suez stories
Some *.el files for emacs that I didn't have yet.
So anyways, if you were waiting for some recommendations before
ordering, here is one. This offer seemed so great to me, that
I went out and paid $200 for a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive just so I
could subscribe. (OK, I was already planning on eventually buying
a CD-ROM drive, I just didn't plan to get one quite so soon.)
Bill