 | This is a recent (May 1997) publication from Tatsumi Hosokawa and
others. Among computer books, it is a top-seller in Japan and
exceeded the sales of Bill Gates' "The Road Ahead" when published
(it was #2, this book was #1). |
 | (Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD: Fun and easy Installation") |
 | (Japanese FreeBSD book with 2.0.5, titled "FreeBSD Introductory Kit") |
 |
This is Walnut Creek CDROM's "FreeBSD Complete"
with installation guide, manual pages and 2 installation
CDs inside.
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 | This is Walnut Creek CDROM's "Installing & Running FreeBSD",
a product which contained installation instructions and was
shipped with each 2 CD set. It has since been replaced by
the larger "FreeBSD Complete" book.
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 | This book was recently published (early 1997) in Taiwan.
Its title is "FreeBSD: introduction and applications"
and the author is Jian-Da Li.
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 | This is the "Getting Started with FreeBSD" from Fuki-Shuppan.
Other than the standard installation guide and Japanese environment,
it emphasizes system administration and low-level information (such
as the boot process, etc.) FreeBSD-2.2.2R and XFree86-3.2 on
CDROM. 264 pages, 3,400 yen.
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 | The "Personal Unix Starter Kit - FreeBSD" from ASCII. Includes
history of Unix, a guide to build a Japanese documentation processing
system and how to create ports. 2.1.7.1R and XFree86-3.2 in CDROM.
384 pages, 3,000 yen.
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 | BSD mit Methode, M. Schulze, B. Roehrig, M. Hoelzer und andere,
C&L Computer und Literatur Verlag, 1998, 850 pages.
2 CDROMs, FreeBSD 2.2.6, NetBSD 1.2.1 and 1.3.2, OpenBSD 2.2
and 2.3. DM 98,-.
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+ | This is the "FreeBSD Install and
+utilization manual" from Mainichi Communications. General
+introduction to FreeBSD from installation to utilization with
+troubleshooting under the supervision of the user group in
+Japan. 2.2.7-RELEASE FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 PAO and distfiles in
+CDROM. 472 pages, 3,600yen.
+ |
+ | The "FreeBSD User's Reference Manual" from
+Mainichi Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project",
+the manual transtation project by the user group in Japan.
+Japanese edition of the section 1 of the FreeBSD manual. 2.2.7-RELEASE
+FreeBSD(98)2.2.7-Rev01 and PAO in CDROM. 1,040 pages, 3,800yen.
+ |
+ | The "FreeBSD System Administrator's Manual"
+from Mainichi Communications, under the supervision of "jpman project",
+the manual translation project by the user group in Japan.
+Japanese edition of the section 5 and 8 of the FreeBSD manual.
+756 pages, 3,300yen.
+ |
 | This is InfoMagic's BSDisc, containing FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 on
a single CD. This is the only example I have which had cover art.
|
 | This is the original 4.4 BSD Lite2 release from UC Berkeley,
the core technology behind much of FreeBSD.
|
 | The first of Laser5's "BSD" series. Contains FreeBSD-2.0.5R, NetBSD-1.0,
XFree86-3.1.1 and FreeBSD(98) kernel. |
 | The second of Laser5's "BSD" series. From this version, the CDs come
in a standard jewel box. Contains FreeBSD-2.1R, NetBSD-1.1,
XFree86-3.1.2 and 3.1.2A, and FreeBSD(98) kernel (2.0.5).
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 | This is the Laser5 Japanese edition of the
FreeBSD CDROM. It is a 4 CD set.
|
 | This is the only FreeBSD CD Pacific Hitech produced before merging their
product line with that of Walnut Creek CDROM. PHT now also produces the
FreeBSD/J (Japanese) CD product. |
 | This is the cover disc from the Korean magazine.
Note the creative cover art! The CD contains the FreeBSD 2.2.1 release
with some local additions. |
 | This is it - the very first FreeBSD CD published! Both the FreeBSD
Project and Walnut Creek CDROM were fairly young back then, and you'll
probably have little difficulty in spotting the differences in production
quality between then and now.
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 | This was the second FreeBSD CD published by Walnut Creek CDROM and also the
very last on the 1.x branch (ref USL/Novell lawsuit and settlement). The next release, FreeBSD 1.1.5, was only
available on the net.
|
 | This unusual CD is something of a collector's item now given that almost
all existing examples were systematically tracked down and destroyed.
An artwork mishap has this CD dated for the wrong year, and on the spine
"January" is also misspelled as "Jaunary", just to increase the embarrassment
factor. Ah, the perils of turning in one's artwork just hours before leaving for
a trade show.
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 | This is the fixed-up version of the FreeBSD 2.0 CD.
Note that the color scheme has even been changed in the corrected version,
something unusual for a fixup and perhaps done to distance it from the
earlier mistake. |
 | The FreeBSD 2.0.5 release CD. This was the first CD to feature Tatsumi Hosokawa's daemon
artwork. |
 | The FreeBSD 2.1 release CD. This was the first CD release on the 2.1 branch
(the last being 2.1.7). |
 | The FreeBSD 2.1.5 release CD. |
 | The FreeBSD 2.1.6 release CD. |
 | The Japanese version of 2.1.6. This was the first and last Japanese
localized version published by WC, responsibility for that product then
transitioning to a team led by Tatsumi Hosokawa and sponsored by
Pacific Hitech and Laser5.
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 | The FreeBSD 2.1.7 release CD. Also the last CD released on the 2.1.x
branch. Done primarily as a security fixup for 2.1.6
|
 | An early release SNAPshot of 2.2 (done before 2.2.1 was released).
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 | The FreeBSD 2.2.1 release CD. This was the first CD on the 2.2 branch.
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 | The FreeBSD 2.2.2 release CD.
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 | The FreeBSD 3.0 snapshot CD.
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 | The FreeBSD mailing list and newsgroup archives, turned into HTML and
semi-indexed by thread. This product ran for 2 releases and then stopped
with a thud once it became obvious that there was simply too much data to
deal with on one CD. Perhaps when DVD becomes more popular...
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