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Re: Where to get Linux

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From: J Groom
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:35:43 +0800, Leon Brooks <leonb@ami.com.au>
wrote:

>Paul wrote:
>
>> There's plenty of distributions of Linux, commercial, and
>> otherwise. You might want to give http://www.suse.com/index_us.html
>> a look too. I've never run SuSE but I hear it's a very well made
>> distribution. Someday I might give it a test drive myself.
>
>...and don't forget http://www.redhat.com
>
>> > Get started with newsgroups if you need support,
>
>> Or better yet, use http://www.dejanews.com/ for quickanswers to many commonly
>> asked questions.
>
>...and http://slashdot.org for recent news and http://freshmeat.net for
>recent software releases, both updated at least twice a day.
>
>> Now for a few more of my favorite URLs
>
>> [chopped]
>
>> Just remember, with open source you have TOTAL control!
>
>...and http://SAL.kachinetech.com for scientific apps, and...

...last but not least ----
http://www.sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/

redhat, debian, slackware, docs, faqs, utils...... sunsite has 'em
all.

Sunsite is a goldmine of archived goodies covering all aspects of
Linux, definite required browsing.
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From: pfrye@informatics.net (J Groom)
Subject: Re: Where to get Linux
Date: 1998/06/22
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