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ken@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Ken Yap) wrote:

>Infomagic is a CDROM manufacturer and not a distribution maker. They
>combine freely available distributions from the Net, including RedHat's
>and Slackware's.  RedHat only distributes RedHat.

This raises a question. Why does the manufacturers of say Slackware
put their stuff on the net for free?

>Because Infomagic has to put each distribution under it's own subtree
>on the CDROM, some original manufacturer features may not work, like
>the single floppy install of RedHat, which requires that the CDROM be
>structured for mounting as root, it seems, but you can still use the
>standard 3 floppy install.

Do you know if the live system works in Infomagic? This is
one of my major concerns.

>If you think you might want a choice of different distributions of
>Linux, by all means go for Infomagic. I find that IMO, it suffices to
>get one good distribution and spend the rest of my time doing
>interesting things with the software rather than installing.

Would you share some of these interesting things with us? I
have always been under the impression that the fun with 
Linux is to install and configure the software (OS + apps).


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Kent Tong
Freeman Installer ==> http://www.netnet.net/users/freeman/