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Re: Assume that I want to Install Linux - FOR Absolutly FREE$$ How?

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From: mtnguy
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 00:00
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> OK ... so go get free!  By the time you waste your time downloading the ISO
> and putting it on a CD, you'd be money ahead to spend the $1.95.  I bet you
> waste more money than that a McDonald's ... ;-)

mtnguy

>
> > Go to Linux Mall or some other mail order site and you can get a copy of
> > several
> > different distributions of Linux for $1.95 per CD.  I purchased SuSe,
> COL2.2,
> > Redhat 6.0, and Mandrake 6.0 ...
>
>    Still not free. :-)  Most distributions have a boot disk you can
> download for FTP installs, but this is over a LAN, not a modem.  You can
> also download the entire distribution, but you are talking about over 600
> meg in most cases.  :-)  $2 plus shipping is cheap, but free is available.
>
>                         Lee
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From: mtnguy <mtnguy@uswestmail.net>
Subject: Re: Assume that I want to Install Linux - FOR Absolutly FREE$$ How?
Date: 1999/07/15
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