4 Jun
2010
4 Jun
'10
12:50 p.m.
I remember being able to buy different variants of linux at a bookstore, but
this was back in 2001-2002 before (almost) everyone and their grandparents
had a high speed connection.
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
you
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
> PC-World (A chain of PC shops over here) certainly used to class Linux
as
> a book and not an operating system. Why I do
not know. I also don't
know
if they
still do, I've not been in such a shop for many years.
Actually this brings up an interesting point. At bookstores around here used to be able to buy Linux distro's even
though they wouldn't sell any
other software.
I don;t think I've ever seen a Linux CD-ROM (or whatever) on its own for
sale in a bookshop over here. There are plenty of linux books that
include a distribution CD-ROM in the back, of course. But there are many
other books that come with a CD-ROM of software, nothing to do with linux
BTW, is the UK's chief export periodicals?
Also why are they so much
more
interesting than ones published in the US?
Eeek!. Considering that I regard most UK magazines are being pretty
awful, yous must be downright useless :-(
-tony