From: SimonJ@eu.invalid   
      
   On 2024-04-27, Auric__  wrote:   
   > Simon wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2024-04-26, J.O. Aho  wrote:   
   >>> On 26/04/2024 08.57, Simon wrote:   
   > [snip]   
   >>>> 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.   
   >   
   > Indeed. I was the first person in my neighborhood to order high-speed   
   > (cable) internet in 1999; the ISP took a few weeks to get the infrastructure   
   > installed, which was frankly blazingly fast for them. My phone line was old   
   > (installed around 1950, so... old) and could only support 28.8k, if I was   
   > lucky. (My cell phone had no data plan; it was the size of an eyeglass case   
   > but only had a tiny text screen, and it cost an arm and a leg.) I downloaded   
   > Slackware 12 over dial-up in 2007 and it took me weeks; I can't imagine   
   > trying to do it 8 years earlier on 50-year-old wires, especially before I   
   > discovered wget.   
      
   I had DSL by 2004 so could download ISO in a few hours, depending on location.   
   This was a huge step up and lead to trying all sorts of distros. Finally able   
   to   
   try things to see for myself.   
      
   > But that's neither here nor there; the book was bought in another state,   
   > while the magazine was purchased overseas.   
   >   
   I did have a large Linux book and also bought some Perl ones too, all lost to   
   moving overseas :-(   
      
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