I'm in favor of this, but I have little to offer, owning only a couple
older distros. But I'd be willing to spring for media and postage for
several of the newer flavors. Can someone be the central repository of
who has what and vouch for quality burns?
A2L1 wrote:
>Hi all,
> Because I'm not ready to buy every new distro and I would
>like to try a couple of diff ones, if anyone has either
>Libranet 2.7 or the new Xandros I would like to try it and
>will offer my SuSE 8.1 PRO. I was thinking maybe we could
>swap them for a week or so--- or maybe just burn cds and
>trade them? Open to suggestions. I would just like to "try
>before I buy" I have downloaded Mandrake 9 and don't like
>it enough to buy it. I have Libranet 2.0 and they are
>offering a previous buyer discount on the 2.7 but it would
>still cost over 40 bucks plus shipping,so again I want to
>give it a ride before I shell over the bucks. Unfortunately
>there is no way to do this other than what I suggested -- I
>don't think --- but I am open to suggestions.
> I'm just tired of buying all the diff distros just to find
>out I don't care for them. I do like SuSe and have been
>using it for awhile but I still like to "experiment" and if
>I find one that I really like I am not opposed to changing.
>Maybe we ought to start a "library" and we could just try
>out diff distros by swapping or copying them?
> Just tossing out the first thing that leaps to mind but
>since I am not in the league with the Getty's and
>gates(intentional lower case) types I really can't afford
>to buy the diff ones just to test them out. I am not
>opposed to buying any I like and do -- but its getting
>expensive to buy distros just to see if I like them or not
>( Salvation Army no longer accepts computer related stuff
>for donation---even software so no more tax write offs on
>the ones I don't like). Anyway anybody interested? any
>suggestions? If there is anyone that would like to do
>something along these lines and doesn't want to take up the
>list space just contact me offlist
>
> Thanks,
> A J
>
>
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