On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Kevin Cozens <kevin@ve3syb.ca> wrote:
On 15-07-27 02:29 PM, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
On 27/07/15 12:27 PM, Myles Braithwaite wrote:
We got this email on our general mailing list. Does anyone know where
you can purchase Linux DVDs in Toronto.


Despite the question being obsolete... What about a book store?

 The first version of Linux I ever got my hands on was Yggdrasil Linux. I bought it at the UofT bookstore in the fall of 1994. It was the first and last time I have been to that bookstore. I'm not avoiding the place. I just haven't found myself in the area again.

With so many distros available for download on line I wouldn't expect (m)any stores to carry Linux CDs/DVDs for sale. Most are out-of-date in six months time when the next release is made available.


Well, if this is going to be *that* kind of party...  +1!
I selected that same Yggdrasil distro at the same time. I recall doing an eenie meenie miney moe between that and that BSD package right next to it :-) I recall being impressed at there being almost 1.3G of software on a <700M CD-ROM.

I've recently been trying to boot Yggdrasil under KVM-qemu - yes, for nostalgic purposes. Not trivial - the lack of an ISA bus is my first problem. EISA even...

Cheers,
Mike