[SC.LUG] MaxTux & Other Unix Suppliers

[Frank Mitchell]

Dear Fellow-Nerds:

I haven't noticed much discussion about UK Unix Suppliers, so I thought I'd 
try and start one by describing MaxTux, who recently supplied me with 64-Bit 
OpenSUSE and FreeBSD.

MaxTux aims to supply people worldwide, like South Africa. But I'm fairly sure 
it's not a Multinational Corporation. It centres around one bloke, namely 
Stephen Lockley of stephen at maxtux.co.uk (also 88, Boundary Walk, BA14 0LZ).

Parts of the MaxTux Website look outdated, but this seems to be because
it shows distros which people bought in the past. If you actually email a 
request for the Lastest Release or the 64-Bit Version, the Website gets 
updated and there's no problem. If you want something unusual, they reserve 
the right to classify it as a Special Request and charge extra, but this 
doesn't happen with familiar distros for PCs.

So MaxTux seems to be a very informal organisation, which relies on Customer 
Demand to keep up to date. You can expect to get some hand-labelled disks, 
which might take more than a week to arrive. But if you're specific, there's 
no problem getting the particular Unix version you want.

Faictz Ce Que Vouldras: Frank Mitchell