On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > Mine just ended up as celing decorations. :-)
>
> With blank writable CDs costing around 7 shekels, and CD writers common,
> *PLEASE* don't try to "donate" old Linux distributions. It's much like
a. it's better than nothing
b. I didn't donate anything older than a year, I have older stuff, but I
keep that as nostalgy (anyone for RedHat 5.9, home made snapshot with
powertools and ssh?)
c. I don't buy media at such outragious prices. this week I got another
batch of 100 at 3.30 each, usually they cost up to 4.50 with VAT for
batches of 1000, you find friends and split the stash... jeez, I sound
like a weed smoker :-)
> it doesn't support his "new" video card (which is supported in the latest
if a person running a Matrox G400 comes and asks for a distro, I'll give
him Mandrake 7.
> In giving away old Linux distributions you're only doing a bad service to
> Linux publicity!
they were not all that bad. it's not like I'm giving away Slackware 1.2
--
Ira Abramov ; whois:IA58 ; www.scso.com ; all around Linux enthusiast
LILO, you've got me on my knees!
(from David Black, [EMAIL PROTECTED], with apologies to Derek and the
Dominos, and Werner Almsberger)
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