As mentioned below, Infomagic put 1.3.1 on the CDs because they couldn't wait for 2.0. It was really a hassle because they still sent out the first set (at least) with packaging stating that 2.0 was in the collection. I took it to my folks' house to load on their new computer 2 weeks after buying it to prove to them how cool Linux was, then I figured out that what I bought wasn't what I got. Not such a huge deal, really. But I'm quite neurotic, so I got really pissed off about it. I already *had* 1.3.1 from my *previous* Infomagic set. Waste of money.
On my own machine (33.6 modem) I actually installed by ftp. Left the modem up overnight for about 4-5 nights. (WHY!!? you may ask, did I do that? Well, I had the installation floppies already, I was impatient, and I already blew my software budget for the month-- since I bought it at the San Diego Computer Expo, I couldn't just return it for a refund-- plus I already said I was neurotic and pissed) I still ought to get a good set of Slink CDs for installs on other people's computers, but I am up to date in Potato and so Slink CDs don't help me a whole lot. On occasion I would like to find someone who can do a one-off of unstable with non-free and non-US. The Debian site lists some URLs where you can supposedly get this done, but when I followed the links, the web pages didn't mention any thing beyond Slink that could be ordered. Infomagic should put Debian back on their CDs, but its useless to put so little care into the quality of the product. I guess they figured Debian users aren't real customers. I *used* to be. Not anymore. Hope someone from Infomagic reads this thread, but they're probably too busy on the Red Hat newsgroups. Incidentally, I have run Slackware, Red Hat (commercial), Caldera, and now Debian. To replace Debian with Caldera is somewhat of an insult, I think. Slackware was the one I kept going back to. I tried Red Hat on 3 separate occasions, and was severely disappointed in the quality. Tried Caldera just once before finding Debian. I will never switch again! Debian is the highest quality distro I have seen. Of course the guys in my local Linux Users' group will say that Debian is good if you're experienced, but I say it's better for newbies, too. My brother-in-law started with Debian Slink about 4 months ago, and makes fun of Red Hat^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H likes Debian as much as I do. Wade Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albert Claret) writes: > > > As strange as it seems, Infomagic has decided to (for some reason) not > > include Debian in their June Linux Developer's Resource 4 CD-set. In their > > website, http://www.infomagic.com/catalog2.htm#linux, they state that > > these CDs include Red Hat 6.0, SuSe 6.1, Slackware 4.0 and (for the first > > time) Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 instead of Debian 2.1. > > > What a relieve! Did you know that up until now they managed to make > any of their Debian inclusion virtually useless? > > > I ask all of you to > > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them to put Debian back on their > > CDs. > > > > I'd rather congratulate them to finally having stopped to f*** up > Debian on their CD's. > > > Once they couldn't wait for hamm to come out so they stuck 1.3.1 > > there, now they take the whole distribution off. What are these people > > thinking? > > > Maybe they are finally reacting to our massive critique? ;-) > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
