Wouldn't it be better to download and burn current versions? ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim To: Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 2:58 PM Subject: Re: Old distros > Good point about old distros and newbies. Maybe we need to collect all > this kind of stuff and make it available to a team of mentors who will > hold the hands of the newbies during the install. > > On Saturday 24 March 2001 14:42, you wrote: > > I was reminded by the recent post of all old distros that that dude > > was giving away that I have a few older ones that are just taking up > > space. > > > > Specifically, I have the following (these are all retail boxed sets -- > > no "gpled" versions): > > > > SuSE 6.2 (English docs + English and German CDs) > > SuSE 6.4 (German only) > > RedHat 6.0 > > RedHat 6.1 Deluxe > > MandrakeSoft 7.1 > > Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 > > Storm Linux 2000 > > > > The German versions of SuSE are handy because they have the crypto > > (ssh, ssl, etc) stuff on them while the English versions don't. > > > > I'm not sure what to do with these. Giving them away is all fine and > > good.. but I am VERY leary of giving them to newbies. Isn't that the > > audience of freebies? Well, I would hate to have some person's first > > exposure to Linux be SuSE 6.2 when SuSE 7.1 is out and is soooooooo > > much better! > > > > So what would happen to these if I did just give them to PLUG? > > > > I also have an extra copy of SuSE 7.1 Professional (full $90 edition > > with docs + 7 CDs and 1 DVD). This is BY FAR, the best Linux > > distribution made to date for either users, sys admins, or developers. > > As such, I'm not a big fan of giving this to some random Joe Linux > > User. This should be given to somebody that is on the fence between > > Windows9x/NT and Linux and needs the extra push. Anybody know of > > somebody like that? > > -- > Jim > > Bliss comes from within, ignorance from without > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss