HI All,
It seems that the days of ordering burned CD's of distros has faded. People just have fast internet now. I recall a number of times that I ordered Slackware CD's or others because it was just easier than downloading and burning myself. I am actually planning on ordering CentOS 5.4 media when available to support the project.
Does anyone think these store make any money? (Linux CD Mall, Linux CD Shop, Linux Central...etc)
I see a number of them (like Mad Tux) dont exist anymore.
Wouldn't someone selling a set for a few dollars plus shipping clean up?
Opinions, please.
-ML
ML wrote:
HI All,
downloading and burning myself. I am actually planning on ordering CentOS 5.4 media when available to support the project.
Most distros/OSs provide that service built in - https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ http://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE http://store.mandriva.com/?cPath=149 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=24
Myself I never trusted those CD burning shops, I recall on a couple of occasions getting bad CDs back in the day(which given the number of times I bought such CDs the ratio was pretty high). Much happier with real pressed CDs.
Then there are the various linux/open source events where endless distributions hand out free CDs.
Does anyone think these store make any money? (Linux CD Mall, Linux CD Shop, Linux Central...etc)
Not off the CDs.
Wouldn't someone selling a set for a few dollars plus shipping clean up?
I wouldn't think so, not off the CDs alone. Where is the value add?
Demand just isn't there. Even when I was still on dialup v90 for the most part I still downloaded ISOs. Leave it on overnight and it's usually done by morning. Prior to those days on occasion I'd buy a CD, my memory from back then is foggy.
Which I suspect is why most of those other places like linux central and stuff offered things like stuffed tuxes, stickers, and other gadgets. Still have a few of those myself..
nate
nate wrote:
ML wrote:
HI All,
downloading and burning myself. I am actually planning on ordering CentOS 5.4 media when available to support the project.
Most distros/OSs provide that service built in - https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ http://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE http://store.mandriva.com/?cPath=149 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=24
Myself I never trusted those CD burning shops, I recall on a couple of occasions getting bad CDs back in the day(which given the number of times I bought such CDs the ratio was pretty high). Much happier with real pressed CDs.
Then there are the various linux/open source events where endless distributions hand out free CDs.
Does anyone think these store make any money? (Linux CD Mall, Linux CD Shop, Linux Central...etc)
Not off the CDs.
Wouldn't someone selling a set for a few dollars plus shipping clean up?
I wouldn't think so, not off the CDs alone. Where is the value add?
Demand just isn't there. Even when I was still on dialup v90 for the most part I still downloaded ISOs. Leave it on overnight and it's usually done by morning. Prior to those days on occasion I'd buy a CD, my memory from back then is foggy.
Which I suspect is why most of those other places like linux central and stuff offered things like stuffed tuxes, stickers, and other gadgets. Still have a few of those myself..
nate
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Hi,
Here in South Africa, one of the members of TLUG - Pretoria University (Tuks) Linux User Group is paying his way through Varsity by doing this - YMMV
ChrisG
At Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:20:29 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
ML wrote:
HI All,
downloading and burning myself. I am actually planning on ordering CentOS 5.4 media when available to support the project.
Most distros/OSs provide that service built in - https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/ http://en.opensuse.org/Buy_openSUSE http://store.mandriva.com/?cPath=149 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Distribution/OnlineVendors http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=24
Myself I never trusted those CD burning shops, I recall on a couple of occasions getting bad CDs back in the day(which given the number of times I bought such CDs the ratio was pretty high). Much happier with real pressed CDs.
Then there are the various linux/open source events where endless distributions hand out free CDs.
Does anyone think these store make any money? (Linux CD Mall, Linux CD Shop, Linux Central...etc)
Not off the CDs.
Wouldn't someone selling a set for a few dollars plus shipping clean up?
I wouldn't think so, not off the CDs alone. Where is the value add?
Demand just isn't there. Even when I was still on dialup v90 for the most part I still downloaded ISOs. Leave it on overnight and it's usually done by morning. Prior to those days on occasion I'd buy a CD, my memory from back then is foggy.
Which I suspect is why most of those other places like linux central and stuff offered things like stuffed tuxes, stickers, and other gadgets. Still have a few of those myself..
My dialup is slow & unreliable (thanks to Verizon's lack of maintaince), so I order CD-Rs from Cheapbytes. Not had any problems.
Yes, I expect thay Cheapbytes probably barely covers their costs selling CDs and makes a little more from the 'other' stuff (stickers, T-shirts, toys, etc.).
I have some open source software for sale as a CD at LuLu -- does not make money, but I understand the woes of not having broadband (been there, still doing that).
nate
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:23 PM, ML mailinglists@mailnewsrss.com wrote:
HI All,
It seems that the days of ordering burned CD's of distros has faded. People just have fast internet now. I recall a number of times that I ordered Slackware CD's or others because it was just easier than downloading and burning myself. I am actually planning on ordering CentOS 5.4 media when available to support the project.
Fast internet connections certainly helped, but in many cases, we don't even need physical media anymore. I use ISOs directly to boot virtual machines and a USB stick for physical machines that retrieve the installation from a loopback mounted ISO on a file server.
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Robert Heller