<div>I guess the install ans support media is good to have.</div> <div> </div> <div>David </div> <div><BR><BR><B><I>Wolfger <wolfger@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On 5/18/07, Fati <FATI@VENEREALINJECTION.COM>wrote:<BR>> > Why Is Linux not in the store shelves, is it because many download the<BR>> > ISO's?<BR>><BR>> That seems likely, I know personally I've only bought Linux from a<BR>> store once, when I bought Redhat 5.2 nearly 10 years ago.<BR><BR>I bought Mandrake 7.2 off the store shelf, got home and found out that<BR>8.2 was just released... I don't think I need to say how disappointed<BR>I was that I just paid ~$40 for something that was already out of<BR>date, and which I immediately replaced with the current version, which<BR>only cost me a few blank CDs.<BR><BR>I love the idea of having Linux on store shelves, but the fact is
that<BR>Linux releases new versions far too quickly for it to be a really good<BR>idea. Maybe if there were more Gentoo-ish distros (where "upgrading to<BR>the current version" is just a matter of typing one command), it would<BR>be a better idea.<BR><BR>-- <BR>Wolfger<BR>http://wolfger.wordpress.com/<BR>http://1fjordaroad.wordpress.com/<BR>AOL IM: wolf4coyot<BR>Yahoo!Messenger: wolfgersilberbaer<BR>Skype: wolfger88<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mdlug mailing list<BR>mdlug@mdlug.org<BR>http://mdlug.org/mailman/listinfo/mdlug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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