<div dir="ltr">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. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Chris Craig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwlug.org@ciotog.net" target="_blank">kwlug.org@ciotog.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I burned my first Linux CD at a university because burners were<br>
several hundred dollars at the time. I also was limited to dial-up<br>
speed. The Linux Store would have been very convenient, then.<br>
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At any rate, I don't see the objection to it...<br>
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On 1 October 2014 14:44, CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I remember when we used to _dream_ of a 1200 bps modem!!!<br>
><br>
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> On 1 October 2014 14:39, Jonathan Poole <<a href="mailto:jpoole@digitaljedi.ca">jpoole@digitaljedi.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Maybe his audience is for those ‘hardcore’ linux users that live under a<br>
>> rock with a 1200baud modem….<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Oct 1, 2014, at 2:36 PM, CrankyOldBugger <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Well he says on one page that you can "save time and money by buying CDs<br>
>> instead of downloading".. Maybe I don't math well, but downloading a CD for<br>
>> free in a matter of minutes versus paying $10 then waiting however many<br>
>> weeks seems to negate his statement...<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On 1 October 2014 14:27, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> I can't tell about intentions.<br>
>>><br>
>>> But perhaps it is simply that he did not update the site since last<br>
>>> October, hence 13.10 is the latest.<br>
>>><br>
>>> There are CD collections on his site for $50. One can debate whether the<br>
>>> effort of copying the CDs warrants the price or not.<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:20 PM, CrankyOldBugger<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> So this guy is for real? Perhaps I'm mistaken, then. I thought $10 for<br>
>>>> an old Ubuntu CD was a bit much, but the article you linked seems to suggest<br>
>>>> that his intentions are good.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On 1 October 2014 14:13, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> The domain was registered in 2007 to one Ryan Cloke of Flipside<br>
>>>>> Technology Services who happens to be a Canadian from Toronto.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> <a href="http://www.ryancloke.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ryancloke.com/</a><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> This is an article about him doing this since 2006, with a .ca domain<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> <a href="http://archive09.linux.com/feature/55712" target="_blank">http://archive09.linux.com/feature/55712</a><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:59 PM, CrankyOldBugger<br>
>>>>> <<a href="mailto:crankyoldbugger@gmail.com">crankyoldbugger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Is this a bit fishy? I stumbled across <a href="http://www.thelinuxstore.org/" target="_blank">http://www.thelinuxstore.org/</a><br>
>>>>>> while looking for Linux paraphernalia , and found that these people are<br>
>>>>>> charging $10 a pop for old Linux CDs (13.10 is the latest they have for<br>
>>>>>> Ubuntu).<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> I hope nobody is falling for this gimmick...<br>
>>>>>><br>
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