on 11/6/2007 5:29 PM, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 22:38, David Boles wrote:
on 11/6/2007 4:32 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: Not sure exactly where you are Nigel, and none of my business either, but there are services that sell Linux distributions on CDs and DVDs for a very reasonable price. And I would think that you could get them much more quickly that way, with less trouble, than a 56k download. ;-)
In the UK I'd have no problem buying the cdrom sets, but in france this seems to be a no-go. The only only place I could find wouldn't even take my carte bleu for payment, you have to send them a cheque. I don't have a credit card so can't even order them from the UK. I'm not too bothered about the long download time, I was simply giving a bit of feedback to karl that dialup is worse than his DSL.
I will post to the Debian user france list, and to the Fedora france list. I can't believe you can't get the sets of iso's in france. I must have made some error on google. Saying that though, i did try a few different search lines, and zilch.
Thanks for your reply.
Nigel.
ps: Perhaps you just have to have a credit card these days to buy stuff. I've had problems with these in the past, and don't want to go down that road again.
Your choice of course. I remember dial-up well. I used to buy the CDs from Cheapbytes but one time I decided to d/l a, I think it was 3 cds at that time, distro. Had I not had a second phone line I am sure that my wife would have killed me long before the download finished. ;-)
As for Fedora 8? It is very nice and I am sure that you will like it. The Fedora people have done another wonderful job.
Best wishes.