CD-ROMs (in short: None of this system are available)
Every now and then we are asked for a CD-ROM of this archive;
so far there are none available.
Reasons for this are multiple, not the least of them being our
unwillingess to do the effort of publishing such a set. Arranging the
publishing on this kind of directly government funded system is not so
easy in legal wise when it comes to direct money making as of selling
those CD-ROMs... Also it doesn't too well fit to our main business
idea of providing all the WAN network services the Academic and
Research community needs. Anyway, we are thinking about it, sometimes...
On technical side: We have now circa 16 GB of material in the
archive. With 600MB per CD-ROM that would do roughly 30 CD-ROMs.
We doubt there would be people willing to buy such a huge set of
CD-ROMS of which they most propably will want under 10% in any case.
Some questimates: Note disk count actual usage
/pub/amiga (1) 3 disks 2.3
/pub/archive (newsgroup(s)) (2) 1 disk 0.95
/pub/crypt (3) 1 disk 0.05
/pub/gnu (4) 1 disk 0.9
/pub/mac (5) 1 disk 0.85
/pub/msdos (and os2+win-nt) (6) 4 disks 3.9
/pub/OS/Linux (7) 2 disks 1.2
/pub/pics (8) 2 disks 1.8
/pub/unix (8) 3 disks 2.6
/pub/X11 (8) 2 disks 1.5
Sums: 8.9 GB 18 disks 14.9
ca. 7 GB not covered here
Notes:
1) There are multiple CD-ROMS of Amiga. We have same files
online, that most of those contain.
2) There are several sources of usenet newsgroups archived on
CD-ROMs. Ask UUNET Technologies, and/or EurOpen/EUnet.
3) /pub/crypt/* et.al. are material that are under US munitions
control laws (yes, MILITARY SECRETS!), and thus once sent
to US, they must not be sent out without horrendous hazzle
of paperwork. That kind of disk must primarily be available
from the outside of the US...
4) Free Software Foundation sells also a CD-ROM, buy that,
and support the developement of free software! More info:
gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu ( See /pub/gnu/GNUinfo/ORDERS* )
7) There are several more or less commercial Linux CD-ROMs.
8) Of these categories there undoubtly are CD-ROMs available,
but sources are unknown. Ask your local shops...
9) The number of files increases continuously, we are going to
go well beoynd 30GB at least