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- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!wcn
- From: wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni)
- Subject: Re: LINUX DISK AVAILBLE IN CANADA
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.155954.8878@cs.brown.edu>
- Keywords: linux disks available
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- References: <jen.712077777@unixg.ubc.ca>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 15:59:54 GMT
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- In article <jen.712077777@unixg.ubc.ca> jen@unixg.ubc.ca (Zhen Yu) writes:
- >I came across an ad in August issue of Computer Paper (a 100-page, nation-wide
- >distributed, free, monthly paper. Circulation in Canada: 185,000). It reads:
- >
- >AVAILLABLE AT LAST: LINUX, the free 386 Unix-like operating system that
- >coexists with DOS and even runs X-Windows! Also includes: GCC/C, GDB, EMACS,
- >UUCP/MAIL, kernel source, and much, much more. Copy Service fee $4 per disk.
- >Base system: 10 disks= $40. X-Windows option: 5 dislks=$20. (address omitted)
- >
- >(Note: 1 Canadian Dollar= 0.84 US Dollar)
- >
- >
- >It seems someone is filling the vacuum for those who want free-unix but have
- >no ftp access.
- >Comments, anyone?
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- Unless the documentation and installation program are good enough,
- I don't think such kind of releases will help the image of Linux.
- Anyway, Linux is still under beta, even though it is extremely stable
- and usable.
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- Wen-Chun Ni
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