I've ordered the minimalist CDs from Cheapbytes (not Cheepbytes) and some
other online CD sellers, and I've always been satisfied -- the CDs are good
and they ship promptly.
What you get on the CD is the "free" portion of the distribution, typically
very similar to the main installation CD in the commercial set (where there
is a commercial set; Debian is a bit harder so summarize). You'll get
everything you need to do a basic install -- including sendmail and the
development libraries (your examples), the gnu compilers, X, perl, emacs,
and apache -- but you won't get some of the non-GPL extensions or the
commercial packages that (I assume) come as part of the official set.
You won't get a boot disk; you'll need either to boot from the CD, if you
can, or make a boot disk from an image on the CD. There will be some
distribution-specific documentation on the CD, as well as a set of HowTOs
and similar references.
At 05:11 PM 5/3/99 -0600, David Hajoglou wrote:
>Cheepbytes is offering the red hat 6.0 from their web site (for really
>cheep) I have enough linux books and stuff at work, so all I really
>need is the os. However, I cannot get very much info on the cd. Has
>anyone ordered a linux cd from cheep bytes? Does the distribution come
>with enough resources to get off of the ground, or will I need to download
>all of the applications seperatly (like sendmail and the devel.
>libraries)?
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