[kwlug-disc] The Linux Store

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

I purchased the Walnut Creek CD collection around 1995, which had
Slackware, Debian, RedHat, Yggdrasil, and maybe others. It was around $30
for the whole set.

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Chris Craig <kwlug.org at ciotog.net> wrote:

> I burned my first Linux CD at a university because burners were
> several hundred dollars at the time. I also was limited to dial-up
> speed. The Linux Store would have been very convenient, then.
>
> At any rate, I don't see the objection to it...
>
> On 1 October 2014 14:44, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I remember when we used to _dream_ of a 1200 bps modem!!!
> >
> >
> > On 1 October 2014 14:39, Jonathan Poole <jpoole at digitaljedi.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> Maybe his audience is for those ‘hardcore’ linux users that live under a
> >> rock with a 1200baud modem….
> >>
> >>
> >> On Oct 1, 2014, at 2:36 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Well he says on one page that you can "save time and money by buying CDs
> >> instead of downloading"..  Maybe I don't math well, but downloading a
> CD for
> >> free in a matter of minutes versus paying $10 then waiting however many
> >> weeks seems to negate his statement...
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1 October 2014 14:27, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I can't tell about intentions.
> >>>
> >>> But perhaps it is simply that he did not update the site since last
> >>> October, hence 13.10 is the latest.
> >>>
> >>> There are CD collections on his site for $50. One can debate whether
> the
> >>> effort of copying the CDs warrants the price or not.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:20 PM, CrankyOldBugger
> >>> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> So this guy is for real?  Perhaps I'm mistaken, then.  I thought $10
> for
> >>>> an old Ubuntu CD was a bit much, but the article you linked seems to
> suggest
> >>>> that his intentions are good.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 1 October 2014 14:13, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The domain was registered in 2007 to one Ryan Cloke of Flipside
> >>>>> Technology Services who happens to be a Canadian from Toronto.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.ryancloke.com/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is an article about him doing this since 2006, with a .ca domain
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://archive09.linux.com/feature/55712
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:59 PM, CrankyOldBugger
> >>>>> <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Is this a bit fishy?  I stumbled across
> http://www.thelinuxstore.org/
> >>>>>> while looking for Linux paraphernalia , and found that these people
> are
> >>>>>> charging $10 a pop for old Linux CDs (13.10 is the latest they have
> for
> >>>>>> Ubuntu).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I hope nobody is falling for this gimmick...
> >>>>>>
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