With the Debian 2.1 4 disk set, the first 3 CD's are the "Official"
image, nothing added, nothing taken away. The fourth CD is the "Official"
image, plus KDE, Kernel 2.2.x, and the online user manual. What a deal!
On Mon, 3 May 1999, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 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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