On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, mike montgomery wrote:
> I just looked at http://www.lsl.com/
> They have mandrake 6.0 cd's for 0.95$ . They also have redhat 6.0 for free !
> I'm not counting shipping. So why is redhat free while mandrake costs 0.95$
> ? Also on the picture of the mandrake cd it says i386(venus) . I thought
> that mandrake 6.0 was compiled for i586 ?
I really don't want to comment on LSL's business practices, so I won't.
Just talk to any other online Linux store for the expose.
They aren't giving away Redhat for free. If you add in their shipping,
you can actually get it for cheaper elsewhere. This is their so-called
"loss leader". They ain't losing any money on it, but they aren't
making any either. They make their real money on the stuff that they
are sole distributers for.
Check to make sure that those CD's are "real", and not just cheap
burned in copies. I've known people to get burned (pun intended) on LSL
deals before. I seriously doubt that the Mandrake is for i386. They
probably just took a stock CD gif and put the word "Mandrake" on it.
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