You can buy Mandrake 8.0 at http://www.cheapbytes.com for $3.49 plus shipping (total comes out under $9.00). On Fri, 4 May 2001, A Kozic wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Um.. correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't the distros actually > > free-for-download? And does your college provide bandwidth? :) > > Theoreticly I could download the distro on my non-unlimited-usage dialup > connection for the weekend. Ugh. > > Or I could buy/borrow an ethernet card, haul my computer & burner to > campus on the subway, find somewhere that I'd be allowed to connect to the > LAN, hopefully where I could also borrow a monitor (so I don't have to > make a second trip on the subway to bring my own). Then download & burn my > CDs, and haul the whole shebang home. > > I have found a better solution: Get a nice person to download and > burn you a cd, in exchange for (a) a few dollars or (b) the warm fuzzy > feeling they get when they help someone with linux. > > > I bought Madrake because I figured it would come with a good manual and > tech support. I hadn't seen any linux books containing mandrake and I > wanted to give it a try. It wasn't a wise purchase, but I was having one > of those days and needed a new toy. A retail box distro is instant > gratification with a shiny new manual. > > -- Avery > > > _______________________________________________ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > -- My public OpenPGP key can be found at http://www.wwu.edu/~turnere/turnere.asc _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
