[Hudlug] Obtaining Discs

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Hiya Tom

SuSE have a slightly odd distribution policy that they blame on the 
fact that the distro contains certain applications that can't be 
included in a ISO release.  Having said that, the DVD edition of this 
month's PC Plus has the 3 CD ISO version of SuSE 8.1.

RedHat 9.0 is available in ISO format at a number of FTP sites - I 
grabbed my copy from:

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/
i386/

...you only need the "shrike-i386-disc1.iso", "shrike-i386-disc2.iso" 
and "shrike-i386-disc3.iso" images.

Hudlug might not have a retailing service, but I believe there's been 
talk in the past that several of us are happy to download and/or 
write images to CD for other Hudluggers.  I'm happy to burn SuSE 8.1 
or RedHat 9.0 for you and post them (if you'll cover the CD and 
postal costs).

>From what I gather, RedHat is becoming more of a desktop distro... 
having said that, I'm using it for a server at home!

Davey P


On 11 May 2003 at 15:18, Tom Croft wrote:

> Hello.  I'm an art student in Todmorden, a small town on the other
> side of Halifax.  I'm also a Debian user, but my brother's
> defenestrating, do I thought maybe I'll migrate to something a little
> easier (Debian seems to lose the plot when you upgrade it).
> 
> What would be the best distro?  Is Mandrake's future still uncertain?
> Is Red Hat[tm] good for desktops (it seems to be regarded as a server
> OS)?  Is SuSE worth considering (seems to be harder to get CDs)?
> 
> Where do I get CDs from?  Last time I used smb-computing.co.uk; their
> RedHat is 8.0 (unless he downloaded ISOs and didn't update the site,
> I'd have to ask).  I believe the LUG doesn't have a CD-retailing
> service (heh) yet; but if anyone knows where I can get RH9, 'twould be
> nice.  Knoppix would be icing on the cake.  I can't get to
> Huddersfield easily.
> 
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