Is linux free 5000

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:54:00 -0700, HalcyonWild

LIAR.

What do you call these?

ftp:--mirrors.kernel.org-suse-i386-10.0-iso

The GM in the .iso names stands for "Gold Master", meaning the .isos are exactly the same as the CDs in the paid for boxed sets. If you read "README.txt" you will see that the so called EvalDVDs are the same as all 5 CDs, on a single DVD. The only difference from the boxed set is you obviously get no dead tree manuals, and there is no helpdesk type support. Software update and security support is the same as the boxed set.

The purely OSS opensuse version is available on the same server under the directory opensuse. Duh! It has the exact same software as the GM cds, except there are none of the closed source apps that are on the GMs. This is not "Beta" software, anymore than Win XP is "Beta" software. Then again, some would argue that all of Microsoft's products have never gotten past being Alpha software.

There are similar .iso repository mirrors for all the major distros, as well as the hundreds of more specialized minor ones, and the software on them is the exact same software as is in the boxed sets. Depending on the distro, there may be less of the software on the download .isos, but all of the OSS software is available, somewhere on their mirrors, after the basic installation is complete. The closed source items are of the Real-player, Acrobat Reader, Flash Player type, or demo versions, and available, for free, from their own sites, so it's no big deal if they're not included.

Here's a little puzzle game for you. Use the link, and see how many Linux .isos you can find.

ftp:--ftp.planetmirror.com-pub

I know it's hard for you, so I'll give you a hint. Put the arrow thingy, on your screen, that moves when you move your mouse, over the things that look like file folders and click (press down) the left button ultil they open to show you what's inside. Keep clicking, and counting each .iso you find, until you find them all. For even more fun, do the same again, only this time, count all the different Linux packages you find. That should keep you busy, and out of here, for a while.

The only way you can "not find any", is to not look at all. Suse alone is mirrored on over 100 servers world wide.

Liar, liar.

They are, as shown above.

If you'd like to pay the costs of setting up and maintaining a proper, free, mirror server, with all the various distros that offer isos, or ftp installations, feel free to do so. I hope you've got deep pockets. There are already hundreds, maybe thousands, out there already. Nobody will stop you, unless you try to tamper with the mirrored files. Do that, and you'd better be prepared for heavy legal expenses, large fines, and possibly, very large damage awards to the files creators.

If you want to create your own distro, and host a download server for that, feel free to do that also; it's allowed, you already have permission.

Then how are they going to download all those .isos you're peeing and moaning about. You know, the ones that contain all those hundreds, even thousands, of programs and utilities that you claim you'd download, if only they existed. They do. You knew that, before you started this thread. You have no interest in learning about, or running, Linux. You post on Linux NGs for the sole purpose of spreading FUD, because you are a LIAR, and a pee poor one, at that.

No more time to waste on you.

Good bye.

-- imotgm "Lost? Lost? I've never been lost... Been a tad confused for a month or two, but never lost."