The rude,
These distros you speak of usually come with quite a bit of
ducumentation. If you want just the distro and nothing else you can get
it from cheapbytes.com for about $6-8 (shipping is the kicker, something
like $5). Look around. It is free, and that is why other companies are
selling it!
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, rude bwoy wrote:
> have any of u checked out what linux is
> retailing for these days?
>
> it's like $70 or $80 for the cd!
>
> i got a new h/d and and i was gonna put
> rehat 6.0 on it. when i realized what
> they were selling "free" s/w for i decided
> to install 5.1 on the drive and download
> the rpm's i need.
>
> i understand that effort goes into packaging
> and distribution - but the people who should
> be getting the money (the programmers) are
> not!
>
> what's the deal???
>
> the rude
>