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. -- David
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