"49¢ shipping for orders under $10! Free Shipping for orders over $10! Free upgrade to USPS Priority Mail for disc orders over $20! "
FrozenTech
For example:
Fedora Core 5 Install DVD AMD64 1.99 (+$.49 = $2.48 shipped.)
Ubuntu 5.10 Live/Install DVD 1.99
Debian 3.1 Install on 2 DVDs 3.98
Windows open software CD .99
(among others, contains the MS Office clone, Open Office, a 100 megabyte download )
My order (13 DVD/CDs) came first class US postage in three days. They are pretty "silk screen" labeled, not stickers or done with markers. The sleeves are those dual no-dust ones (not paper) with binder holes on the side, so you could put them in that type of CD binder. The blanks are Verbatim brand, often said to be the best DVDs.
Why is this a deal? --->
If you are a relentless computer junkie, you no doubt are fooling with Linux. You will be downloading .iso files from ftp sites to burn your own installation CDs. None of those wimpy boxed commercial versions, with silly stuff like instructions and support, for you. You can get all that and more on the Internet.
Maybe you were after Fedora Core 3 on three CD's. (FC 5 is on 5 CDs.) At 28800 (the max dial up connection in my area) it takes over 200 hours of download time, about 70 hours per CD. At 8 hours a day, that's 25 days. Near a month of downloading. Yes I have done it. (You need a resuming downloader, like Getright, of course.)
Of course downloading 4.7G DVDs is hopeless.
This can be depressing, so you might "borrow" a friend's DSL connection at times. This might be obnoxious, but it reduces download time by a measured factor of 21.
You could also buy pre-burned Linux CDs from places that I know of. The CDs are nicely labeled and all. Very nice. They all are reasonable on the CDs. Usually somewhere near $2 per CD, not including shipping. Shipping is usually a minimum of $6. Some places'll kill you on the shipping. Like every distro might be another $6 shipping regardless. Some places have "free" shipping, but they jack up the price of the CDs.
I've never seen anything like FrozenTech though. I ended up getting 11 Linux distros. That's 8 DVD's, 5 CD's, for a total of $20.87 shipped. Yeah, I went nuts. Other outfits give you maybe a dollar break if you get a multiple CD distro on a DVD alternative. Debian comes as 8 Gigs on 2 DVDs. That would be over 11 CDs.
Some other linux CD sellers:
linuxonline.biz
linuxcd.org
easylinuxcds.com
osdisc.com
edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/index.php
cheapbytes.com
chguy.com/mir/
linuxcentral.com
osdepot.com/osc/ >redirected page
205lan.com/catalog/
exofire-cd-burn.com
{edit: these links are gone now or dubious}
?elucis.com >redirected to a high speed download site
?makezero.com >dead link
?systemdisc.com >site non-operational
?lincd.com >site out of date
?linux-iso-store.com >dead link
?store.realmind.us > dead page
?teammurder.com >looks old
Some will download and burn any (legal) CD/DVD you want for a fee. Just give them the name or URL.
Find out about different distros on distrowatch.com
FrozenTech
For example:
Fedora Core 5 Install DVD AMD64 1.99 (+$.49 = $2.48 shipped.)
Ubuntu 5.10 Live/Install DVD 1.99
Debian 3.1 Install on 2 DVDs 3.98
Windows open software CD .99
(among others, contains the MS Office clone, Open Office, a 100 megabyte download )
My order (13 DVD/CDs) came first class US postage in three days. They are pretty "silk screen" labeled, not stickers or done with markers. The sleeves are those dual no-dust ones (not paper) with binder holes on the side, so you could put them in that type of CD binder. The blanks are Verbatim brand, often said to be the best DVDs.
Why is this a deal? --->
If you are a relentless computer junkie, you no doubt are fooling with Linux. You will be downloading .iso files from ftp sites to burn your own installation CDs. None of those wimpy boxed commercial versions, with silly stuff like instructions and support, for you. You can get all that and more on the Internet.
Maybe you were after Fedora Core 3 on three CD's. (FC 5 is on 5 CDs.) At 28800 (the max dial up connection in my area) it takes over 200 hours of download time, about 70 hours per CD. At 8 hours a day, that's 25 days. Near a month of downloading. Yes I have done it. (You need a resuming downloader, like Getright, of course.)
Of course downloading 4.7G DVDs is hopeless.
This can be depressing, so you might "borrow" a friend's DSL connection at times. This might be obnoxious, but it reduces download time by a measured factor of 21.
You could also buy pre-burned Linux CDs from places that I know of. The CDs are nicely labeled and all. Very nice. They all are reasonable on the CDs. Usually somewhere near $2 per CD, not including shipping. Shipping is usually a minimum of $6. Some places'll kill you on the shipping. Like every distro might be another $6 shipping regardless. Some places have "free" shipping, but they jack up the price of the CDs.
I've never seen anything like FrozenTech though. I ended up getting 11 Linux distros. That's 8 DVD's, 5 CD's, for a total of $20.87 shipped. Yeah, I went nuts. Other outfits give you maybe a dollar break if you get a multiple CD distro on a DVD alternative. Debian comes as 8 Gigs on 2 DVDs. That would be over 11 CDs.
Some other linux CD sellers:
linuxonline.biz
linuxcd.org
easylinuxcds.com
osdisc.com
edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/index.php
cheapbytes.com
chguy.com/mir/
linuxcentral.com
osdepot.com/osc/ >redirected page
205lan.com/catalog/
exofire-cd-burn.com
{edit: these links are gone now or dubious}
?elucis.com >redirected to a high speed download site
?makezero.com >dead link
?systemdisc.com >site non-operational
?lincd.com >site out of date
?linux-iso-store.com >dead link
?store.realmind.us > dead page
?teammurder.com >looks old
Some will download and burn any (legal) CD/DVD you want for a fee. Just give them the name or URL.
Find out about different distros on distrowatch.com