On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 11:04:56PM -0500, John Vincent M. Catral wrote:
> > Linux is supposedly free under the
> > >GNU General Public License. So I am confused, why will it cost me $30 to
> > >download it?
>
> Hello! Don't be confused! ;) I still consider myself as a newbie. I started
> playign with Linux in the begining of this year. And I love it! When we say
> Linux is Free, it means that the source code is free from charge and free to
Er, actually it isn't free of charge. If you can find someone who is
willing to pay you to give them a copy of it, you're "free" to carry out
such a transaction. The phrase that's used a lot about GPL'd things is
"free speech, not free beer", which means you're "free" (as in liberty)
to use/modify/distribute, it does not mean that distribution must be
free of monetary (or other/equivalent) compensation.
Fred
> alter. When you are paying for Linux it really means that you are paying for
> the time and effort someone burned Linux into a CD, The CD itself =), support
> from the Linux distributor and lastly, all the setup books that come with the
> package. Those are what you are paying for. =)
> I started playing with Redhat 5.1 and worked my way up. I wished I had
> Redhat 6.1 when I first started. Redhat 6.1 is even easier to install. I know
> this is a redhat mailing list, but Caldera 2.3 is great with new linux users.
>
> >
> > >
> > >Thats the least of my problems, here is what I have:
> > >
> > >486 DX2-66 (Intel)
> > >425 MB hard drive, 400 MB free, 1 DOS partition
> > >12 MB RAM
> > >DOS 6.22, some DOS games, and DOS utilities
> > >8X Nec CD ROM (new last week, the old 2X Sony quit on me)
> > >Sound Card
> > >VESA video
> > >14.4 internal USR modem
> > >3.5 floppy drive
>
> I think 400Mb of free space is sufficent enough for a command prompt Linux
> but if you want to use either Gnome, KDE or the other Graphical user Interfaces
> (GUI) you should have at least 1 Gig. =)
>
> Just start researching and reading up on Linux and you'll do fine. This
> mail-list is the best! Try to follow the posts. I have learned a lot from it.
> =)
>
> -John
>
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