22 Oct
1998
22 Oct
'98
8:54 p.m.
Francois wrote:
There are some distributions that are sold for $50 but they usually include
book and phone support plus some sort of installation program
I myself regularly buy Red Hat and Caldera commercial distribution
packages. It generally saves (at 33.6 Kbps) several days time in
the acquisition, not counting the Gb or so of spare disk to hold it
during installation and testing. (At the moment I'm in my fourth
day of downloading SuSE from the gatech mirror -- there have been a
few interuptions, some from my ISP flaking out, some from my
father-in-law fiddling with the extension phone).
I bought the first CD distribution of Linux I saw, Yggdrasil, the
minute I found it. I've been using Red Hat since the Halloween
release. They beat the hell out of making floppy images, as I'd
been doing before, as hard disk space still cost actual money, not
like now.
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