Old distros

[keith@christianexchange.org]

Wouldn't it be better to download and burn current versions?


----- Original Message -----
From: Jim <farli@qwest.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
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
>
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