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Article #662Re: Download Open Linux 2.3
From: Larry Wagner
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:00
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Is there a way to download Linux and install it off of floppy disks, if you have a fast Internet connection but no capability for burning a CD? Larry Scott Simpson wrote in message <7sdp63$b1h$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net>... >Glenn T. Jayaputera <gtj@tesla.net.au> wrote in message >news:slrn7uk153.lm9.gtj@budgie.tesla.net.au... >> I believe there are some who have download version of 2.3 >> The problem is the license imposed by Caldera says that you >> cannot redistribute/reproduce/resell 4 components of the >> distributions (one of them is Lizard) without written >> permission from them. > >There is a very easy solution to this. Run Debian. You can't really blame >Caldera, they are trying to make money and stay in business. I would rather >give my money to Caldera than Microsoft. I find all this bickering about >prices really silly because everybody can run Debian (or RedHat) for >virtually free (the price of cutting a CD). I think people that pay money >in the store for Linux distributions are naive; the support the companies >claim to give is virtually non-existent and better manuals can be had at the >bookstore. Why bother? > > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: faa64,611fce4cda5eab71 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa64,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,611fce4cda5eab71 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,611fce4cda5eab71 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: 100c5f,611fce4cda5eab71 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c5f,public X-Google-Thread: 110f50,611fce4cda5eab71 X-Google-Attributes: gid110f50,public From: "Larry Wagner" <larrywagner@home.com> Subject: Re: Download Open Linux 2.3 Date: 1999/09/23 Message-ID: <7se55a$29qv@news1.newsguy.com> X-Deja-AN: 528811414 References: <37e9fc62@grissom> <slrn7uk153.lm9.gtj@budgie.tesla.net.au> <7sdp63$b1h$1@holly.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Organization: http://extra.newsguy.com X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Newsgroups: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup