On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Cozens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15-07-27 02:29 PM, Blaise Alleyne wrote: > >> On 27/07/15 12:27 PM, Myles Braithwaite wrote: >> >>> We got this email on our general mailing list. Does anyone know where >>> you can purchase Linux DVDs in Toronto. >>> >>> >> Despite the question being obsolete... What about a book store? >> > > The first version of Linux I ever got my hands on was Yggdrasil Linux. I > bought it at the UofT bookstore in the fall of 1994. It was the first and > last time I have been to that bookstore. I'm not avoiding the place. I just > haven't found myself in the area again. > > With so many distros available for download on line I wouldn't expect > (m)any stores to carry Linux CDs/DVDs for sale. Most are out-of-date in six > months time when the next release is made available. > > Well, if this is going to be *that* kind of party... +1! I selected that same Yggdrasil distro at the same time. I recall doing an eenie meenie miney moe between that and that BSD package right next to it :-) I recall being impressed at there being almost 1.3G of software on a <700M CD-ROM. I've recently been trying to boot Yggdrasil under KVM-qemu - yes, for nostalgic purposes. Not trivial - the lack of an ISA bus is my first problem. EISA even... Cheers, Mike
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