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Were Can I Get/Download Linux?

  • 29-09-2002 05:25PM
    #1
    dafridgea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Were Can I Get/Download Linux? :confused:


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  • #2
    flamegrill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,862 ✭✭✭flamegrill


    You can Buy it?

    You can download it from many many places :)

    Out local mirror of most things is ftp.esat.net/mirrors/

    or try http://ftp.sunet.se - very very fast connections there :)

    Regards,

    Paul


  • #3
    Jorinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Jorinn


    I suggestyou pick up a distro thatoften come free with Linux magazines suchas linux format, was none in currentissue but Slackware was onth before and next issue is oct8


  • #4
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,468 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    If you can't download them, try http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/
    I've ordered from them a few times and I've found them to be fast and reliable.


  • #5
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,400 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    ftp.heanet.ie is another Irish one

    I got Mandrake very fast off one of the French mirrors mentioned on its site.... 70+ K/sec


  • #6
    logic1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭logic1


    ftp.esat.net

    .logic.


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  • #7
    mayhem#
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,051 ✭✭✭mayhem#


    loadsa distro's at www.linuxiso.org.....


  • #8
    spod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭spod


    If you're in dublin some time try these:

    * The secretary's office in the maths dept in tcd always has the latest redhat distro and sometime the latest freebsd distro on cds for a few euros.

    * Waterstones/hodges-figgis tend to have boxsets of reasonably recent distros complete with manuals.

    Otherwise, sign up to the ilug list via linux.ie and see if there's anyone near you who'll burn you a set of cds, then unsub from ilug again, quickly.


  • #9
    Slydice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭Slydice


    heanet is great

    http://ftp.heanet.ie/

    900kb/s and thats cos my end is slow


  • #10
    noog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭noog


    http://mirror.lchost.co.uk/linux/ is a fast quiet mirror, only has debian slack and redhat though.... the download rates are...

    dlr.jpg

    nuff said :-)


  • #11
    Dun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,967 ✭✭✭Dun


    Originally posted by noog
    http://mirror.lchost.co.uk/linux/ is a fast quiet mirror, only has debian slack and redhat though.... the download rates are...

    dlr.jpg

    nuff said :-)

    Oh FFS - brag why don't you :p

    I won't be doing any downloading of ISOs, netsmart or none. Has anybody tried Mandrake 9? I'm on 8.2 and wondering if it's worthwhile upgrading. If anybody here wants to check it out, see http://www.linux-mandrake.com/

    [off-topic]Anyone here know if PartitionMagic 7 or Xp or whatever the lastest is called has support for ext3? Annoyed me being unable to move my ext3 partition under PM6, though it does support ext2.[/off-topic]


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  • #12
    noog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 514 ✭✭✭noog


    Mandrake 9 is okay, but it still has a lot of bugs to iron out. Any amateur user who uses adsl might want to steer clear of this beta as they screwed their connection scripts. imho the nicest distro to work with atm is SuSe 8... They dont release the ISO's but i have some ISO's which were made from the retail version, with the pay-for software removed (stuff like realplayer server etc) If anyone's interested mail me...

    hth - noog.


  • #13
    red vex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭red vex


    im a newbie 2 linux
    i have a p150mhz pc that im tryin to ressurect
    the hard drive is formatted
    1 - what distro should i use
    2 - will it load on its own(if not how would i load the drivers?)


  • #14
    tribble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,478 ✭✭✭tribble


    Peanut Linux is a good choice for an old (pentium, 32mb)machine for a few reasons.

    1. It's needs about 600MB for a full system (incl. GUI and Office Package)

    2. It's a small download

    3. It's up to date.
    www.ibiblio.org/peanut/

    If you have an dinosaur machine (386, 4Mb anybody) try Vector Linux www.vectorlinux.com/


    b


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