[LUNI] Linux Release

[Christopher S. Susi]

Whenever I see "Free" OS's at stores, the asking price is $30+.  FreeBSD at
Fry's was $99.  

You can order online at http://www.osdisc.com/.  They are in CO so you'd
probably get it in a couple of days.  OpenSUSE is $10, and Ubuntu is $2.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: luni-bounces at luni.org [mailto:luni-bounces at luni.org] On Behalf Of
> Fred Butzen
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 7:12 AM
> To: luni at luni.org
> Subject: [LUNI] Linux Release
> 
> Dear Luni Folks,
> 
> On Saturday, I bought one of those bargain refurbished computers at
> Microcenter. It was a nice deal - an inexpensive home machine for
> connecting to work or web surfing for less that $250.
> 
> Of course, I want to rip out XP and install Linux. I can boot Knoppix,
> so I know that it's Linux-ready. But all of the releases that I have are
> rather stale - the newest is Fedora Core 1, which is nearly five years
> old.. And I don't have the facilities for downloading and burning my own
> CDs of a release on-line.
> 
> So, my question is this:
> 
> Of the retail outlets in Chicago that sell Linux, which outlet would you
> recommend, and which release would you recommend?
>