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Re: Older Hardware Still Works

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On 2025-09-05 09:52, c186282 wrote:
> On 9/4/25 2:20 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:34:05 +1000, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote:
>>
>>> Groovy hepcat Lawrence D’Oliveiro was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on
>>> Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:55 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:37:33 +1000, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> True, but getting them from magazine cover CDs/DVDs wasn't. Nor was
>>>>> ordering a disk set from a disk set vendor.
>>>>
>>>> Ah, fair enough. There was even a period when the Ubuntu project would
>>>> happily send out CDs for free to anyone in the world who asked.
>>>
>>>    Yes. And you could even buy Linux CDs in shops. I've acquired some
>>> that way. My first distro was Slackware 3.4 bought from a computer shop
>>> in the heart of Melbourne. (That shop no longer exists, sadly! It closed
>>> down a couple years or so ago after surviving for many years. There are
>>> many pressures on small businesses these days: increased rent and
>>> council rates, fewer people buying their merchandise, customer base
>>> moving online, etc. And the pandemic put the last nail in the coffin, I
>>> guess.)
>>
>> I still have the boxed set of SuSE 8.2 that I bought at BestBuy or maybe
>> FutureShop. The name changed along the way although it's the same
>> building.
>>
>> https://www.linux-distros.com/suse-linux-8-2/
> 
>    Real SUSE eventually was supplanted by OpenSUSE.
> 
>    Pretty much the same - but no licensing.
> 
>    Linus made an independent clone of Unix ...
>    OpenSUSE was an independent clone of SUSE.
> 
>    Compaq set the legal paradigm.
> 
>    LONG back I was buying branded SUSE. Good, great -
>    but the quasi-free thing didn't last.
> 
>    You can still buy RealSUSE ... your org MIGHT
>    be more friendly towards something PAID rather
>    than what's sometimes branded as "junk freeware".


This is not correct information.

openSUSE Leap (the community release) has the same packages as the 
commercial SUSE version, plus others prepared by the community.


> 
>> There's a photo of the shrink wrapped box at the bottom of the page. It
>> had the media as well as printed manuals.
> 


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Re: Older Hardware Still Works Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2025-09-04 15:34 +1000
  Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-04 18:20 +0000
    Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-05 03:52 -0400
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-05 12:46 +0200
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-05 07:08 -0400
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-05 19:36 +0000
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-05 21:52 +0200
            Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-06 04:27 +0000
              Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-06 14:25 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-06 16:53 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-07 00:03 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-07 01:49 -0400
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-06 06:58 +0100
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-05 19:31 +0000

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