On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 14:17:40 -0500, Jeff Kinz <jkinz@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 07:11:42PM -0000, Dr Siva Sankar M. wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > I usually get my Fedora Distribution from books or magazines. I cannot > > download them as I have just a dial-up net (mere 3kbps). You have > > stopped including kernel-source in your distro cds inspite of having > > more than 60MB in the first 3 cds and more than 300MB in the fourth > > cd. It is very diffucult for many people like me who have dial-up and > > need kernel-source for compiling additional drivers or for fine tuning > > kernel, to download the kernel-soruce separately. It would be nice if > > you distribute it in the main 4 distro cds. please think about this. > > Dear Dr. Sankar. > I'm afraid you don't understand what Fedora is. Fedora is a > development community working of producing an Open Linux Distribution > called fedora. This group does not produce the CD's you buy when you > buy a book. Those CD;s are produced by the book's publisher and that > publisher makes the decision on whether to include the source code > CD's with their book. > > PS. Please don't post email in HTML. It's the mark of a rank newbie (and > therefore forgivable in newcomers). It causes many problems for the > list (especially the digest), and many of the most knowledgeable members > of the list don't read HTML postings. (They are filtered out for security > reasons). Since those are the people whom you most want to have read > your emails its in your best interests to post them in a format that > will get read by all. > [snip] > > http://kinz.org > http://www.fedoranews.org > Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. > Linux.org has a list, http://www.linux.org/vendor/retailer/distribution.html , of Linux vendors. You should be able to find a vendor who is geographically close to you. If not, try Distrowatch, http://www.distrowatch.com. Their Fedora Core 3 source CDs were under $8US the last time I checked.
