Retail Boxed Products in the Handbook

[Eric Anderson]

Ceri Davies said:
>
> All,
>
> Please cast your eye over to Appendix A of the Handbook, and the section
> titled "Retail Boxed Products".  I'll wait.
> You'll see that we have Frys and CompUSA listed as retailers of boxed
> sets. Well CompUSA have told us that they don't stock these anymore;
> does anybody know if Frys still do, or is anyone in a position to call
> one and enquire?
>
> I'm thinking of removing this section altogether, and it's been
> suggested to me that I enlist your folks help in trying to whip up a
> list of retailers who really do stock FreeBSD boxed sets, to try and
> save the section.

Here's my report:

BestBuy: nope - not even a section for it (only linux)
CompUSA: nope - no section either
Fry's - Yes! - They had the handbook, FreeBSD Power Pak, FreeBSD 4.6, and
FreeBSD 5.0.

I'll try to check CostCo sometime this week.

Eric


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