From: Jason Voegele <jason@...>
Date: 2002-02-23T06:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Drastically offtopic ( was Re: special characters)

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> On Sat, 23 Feb 2002 07:51, Tobias Reif wrote:
>> Urban Hafner wrote:
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>> thanks for the tips.
>>
>> > Use Debian ;)
>>
>> Buying two distributions would make Linux way too expensive for me,
>> and also way more expensive than some OEM Win.
>>
>> Tobi
> 
> I highly doubt that.
> 
> www.cheapbytes.com lists mandrake as 5.49 USD + shipping and debian as
> 9.99  USD + shipping. 

Or you can download any of them for free at http://www.linuxiso.org

I know Debian has a "minimal" CD image that gives you just enough to 
install over the internet.  It's less than 30MB.

Jason Voegele