From: SimonJ@eu.invalid
On 2024-04-26, J.O. Aho wrote:
> On 26/04/2024 10.53, Simon wrote:
>> On 2024-04-26, J.O. Aho wrote:
>>> On 26/04/2024 08.57, Simon wrote:
>>>> On 2024-04-25, Auric__ wrote:
>>>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>
>>>> I used to pick and choose magazines to buy by the distro that was
included that
>>>> month. I tried all sorts, with varying degrees of success, it was nice to
try
>>>> them all.
>>>
>>> I only bought those without the CDs, as they were a lot cheaper and I
>>> did have a flat cost internet so I could download everything myself.
>>>
>>> Sadly most places who had Linux magazines mainly just sold the with CD
>>> version, so it was always going around the different stores and see if
>>> they happen to have the CD free version that was almost half the price.
>>>
>>
>> This was back in the mid 90s, so not only was internet slow and downloads
>> unreliable, it made the phone unusable which was not ideal either.
>
> Keep in mind that binaries wasn't that big either, so it didn't take for
> ever to download applications, sure a full sized CD would take hours,
> worst was those multi disk releases that could sometimes take a day or
> so, I did have a dedicated phone line for my internet, so no risk of
> someone picking up the phone and break the connection, but sure when not
> having a dedicated line then things would be a bit random if you would
> finish a download or not, or your MUD session was broken at a critical
> stage in the adventure.
>
True, updating a system was easy but downloading an ISO to try was an ordeal, I
was grateful for the magazine CDs. Hard to imagine in todays world where an DVD
ISO can be downloaded without any thought of the size or time.
--
Simon
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