You'd post on this list and get in touch with a supplier within a few hours.
On Tue, August 21, 2007 2:21 pm, alanw wrote: > Thanks Chris, but the point of the exercise is... ah, what would you call > it?... get it now? > > If I wanted a copy of a Linux distribution, say Mepis, for example, where > could I get it, within the hour? > > I can pick up a micro$oft CD from a multitude of places, and have it in my > hot little hand, within the hour, because it's everywhere practically. > Yet, > I can't do that with Linux. Simply because I don't know where to go. > > Picture someone in Chch on holiday, say, and they don't know anyone here > yet. They hear of a new distro they want to try out on their laptop > maybe. > But they don't have broadband (or it's not working, whatever)... where can > they get the CD? > > Is there a list of places I could point them to? No. I don't even know > myself where I'd go. > > So I've got the yellow pages open, and am ringing around. So far... > > Harvey Norman is out, no Linux at all. Future plans - none. > > The Computer Broker used to have Ubuntu for $5 but no longer stock it. > Future plans - none. > > Dick Smith? Old and new versions of Ubuntu - $7 and $9. Get it now? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Nick Rout
