Suggestions for a good site to order Slack??
 

I am on dial up so downloading it is not really possible. I am hoping some of you can suggest some good sites that you have ordered slackware from. I was looking at easylinuxcds.com but i decided i should ask some advice before i buy. Easylinuxcds.com also offers a command training cd which i figure would be good cause im such a noob. I appreciate any advice, please help!

thank you

how about the slackware store: http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store ???

I get mine from slackware.com

Moved: More suitable in our Slackware forum.

I say get them from the Slackware.com store mentioned above. You are buying them at a little higher cost but your also supporting the person who actually creates and maintains Slackware.

Any other site is just profitting off of his hard work.

Cheers.

Get your cds from osdepot.com- they're selling slackware for the lowest price on the net that I know of -- $5.95. I bought Mandrake 9.2 and 10 from them, and their average turn around time is much better than easylinuxcds. Also, you should know that easylinuxcds is based in Canada, not US- so shipping time sux.

osdepot.com

I purchased my CDs directly from Slackware.com. The telephone lines in my neighborhood are only good for 26.4 K so downloading it would have taken several days. Purchasing it directly from them helps support Slackware. The CDs arrived in the mail in only about two days.

Yes, Get it from the Slackware Store.... The Jury will please disregard laptopgadgets's comment.... I have a subscription thru Slackware. Get a little off on each release and they give you priority on shipping it out ASAP. Of course thery ship everything out quick anyway.... Got my Slackware hat 3 days after I ordered it.... God I'm such a nerd... Cool hat tho... :cool:

OSdepot.com ships from NY and average turn around is 3-5 days via first class mail. You have to see the difference in price, too. You can ask them to ship priority or overnight if you like.direct link to www.osdepot.com removed by moderator

Dude... Quit spamming.... 2 posts and thats all you've done. It's beginning to look apparent that you have some sort of afiliation with osdepot.... Go back from whence thou came....:o

And you aren't affiliated with Slackware? Don't mind, but though slackware makes their own product, it's essentially built on openSource work by lot of other people--so buying it from slackware or somewhere else is the same thing.

I bought my present install disks from the slackware store.
However, when I was trying out various distributions, I bought slackware, etc., from "Discount Linux CDs" for just a few bucks:
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php

Also a nice way to pick up applications for Linux or even free applications for Windows.
So I buy here to experiment, then buy from the originators when I settle on something.

laptopgadgets- are you a moron. You are going to compare the work involved in designing an entire distribution, updating all the build scripts, compiling all the packages, testing all of them together to make certain they all play nice to copying someone else's work and selling the duped CD's. ..... I guess I started with a rhetorical question that does not require an answer.

Man.... Give laptogadgets a break. Lots of people buy linux cheaply from other people who take the time to make copies and make them available.

What's next? Don't download ISO's??

Edit:
Oh, I paid $19.95 for my first slackware, which was an official, slackware packaged, 4 CD set bought from MicroCenter. But I have no problem with people getting linux free or cheap.

I don't mind either whether people got their Slack by downloading the ISO's or by buying the official version...but if you would ask me what I prefer, I'd naturally go for the latter. I think the main reason for people reacting was the spam-ish tendency and

..indicating he ain't got a clue.

Give him a break? Personally I don't care if you download it, buy it from cheapbytes.com or whatever. But to say Pat's efforts don't mean sh** because linux is all open source is very offensive to any Slackware user. I understand some people may not be able to afford to buy the distro and I don't think anyone begrudges them using Slack without buying the retail version. But no thinking person can say there is no difference between buying it from Slackware or from laptopgadgets.

ringwrath and nvn- now that you've made a complete ass of yourself, just look at the original posting--it was in december 2003-- the guy who needed it already bought slackware already.

And if you ask about playing fair, for ever $40 or so you pay to slackware, you should write a $400 check to linus and the kernel development team for writing the kernel, $100 to Sun Micro for OpenOffice, $100 to KDE/GNOME, and $200 more to people at FSF. The amount of work they contribute to a working OS doesnt come close to what a distribution arranger does. Frankly, I can put together pieces of openoffice internet, kde and other sh*t and make a distro of my own overnight.

So when are you writing the checks?


Buying it for $40 from slackware = getting the iso = getting it from cheap cd place => at the end you get the same piece of software.

1. It looks to me like the post was done on 2/1/04. The poster registered on the forum Dec 03. Further proof you are a moron.

2. You were the one that restarted this conversation by responding to a post that was over a month old. Even Further proof you are a moron.

3. Now you want to start telling us that you are greater than Pat and could do what he does over night. Have at it big boy.

And it's normal to think that this guy will wait 1.5 months to buy slackware?

Well, if lindows could just change debian's kde theme and renamed all the free applications and can charge $45 for their new distro, everyone can do it.

Further Moronic Comments- You were the one that resurrected a month old thread to spam this Board telling people to buy from you.

Yet another Moronic Comment- Slackware is NOT a repackage of someone else's distro. It does not use debian packages, it does not use rpms. All of the packages have to be compiled from source as Slackware has its own packaging system.

How about you go into the LindowsOS forum and ask if that's all there is to it.

I doubt it, but even if you pulled that off, it wouldn't be anywhere near the quality of Slackware. I certainly wouldn't risk installing it on my computer. Slackware isn't just a bunch of packages some guy downloads and throws together. It's a finely tuned system, and it costs money to produce. But go on, if you think it's that easy, try it.


I don't care where anybody gets their disks from, but don't go around trivializing the maintainers as if the releases just magically appear somehow.

ringwrath-- you're a world-class moron. How many of those software (that needs to be compiled) are made by slackware? 10%? 20%? Why don't you pay 80% of the cost to the people who made the software that makes a useful linux distro, be it debian, slackware or anything else. Do you only use commandline applications that slackware provides? If you don't, according to your words of paying who made it, you should be paying to all the software developers -like mozilla, openoffice, kde..and the list goes on. Do you do that?

My point is, if slackware is able to use the free software for free (oxymoron), why can't anyone else distribute the another free software collection like slackware for free--and what gives you the itch in certain part of your back?

This is getting plain silly now and I've TRIED to stay out of it.... I guess I'm the cause of it all.... My point was merely this... Any one who uses Slackware day in and day out, would not even think of buying it from somewhere else other than the Slackware store. It's all fine and dandy to download it for free when your expeirmenting with it. Thats what I did up until 9.1.... Hell, thats what I do with any distro... Why pay for something if you don't know if your going to continue using it... But Slackware is such a great distro and it has the most loyal user base of any other distro... Period..... So if you already knew that, you shouldn't be trying to advertise for osdepot here on a Slack forum... If you didn't know that, you do now... I don't even understand why the original poster asked this question. If you wanted to buy a brand new honda, where would you go to get it? Why not try a Honda dealer? There is also nothing wrong with posting a link to osdepot. Good for you. Your answering a question and that is what these forums are for. But now it's evident your just a spammer who has nothing worthy to contribute.... I personally hate spammers with a passion. They're just like telemarketers who call you at 8:30 pm when your eating dinner....

Oh.. O.k... So now your saying that it no longer costs 9.95 to buy Slack 9.1 from osdepot? You guys are giving it away for free now? Cool.... Well, that would be allright then.... You are full of contradictions and your reasoning is so flawed it's almost funny... And personally, I think the more you open your mouth, the more damage you do to osdepot. If this is the kind of shit that they condone, I will never buy anything from them ever, least of all, Slackware.... You can continue to show your intelligence and maturity level if you wish by continuing to open your mouth, but personally, this has lost all interest for me, what little there was in the first place.... Best of luck to you tho. I hope your not really into marketing because you are HORRIBLE at it...

I bought my four disc set off of eBay.

www.ebay.com

I paid $2 for the CDs and $2 for shipping. All in all: $4!

//moderator.note: this thread closed due to Ringwraith, Laptopgadgets and others violating the LQ Rules. Laptopgadgets: in case you're somehow affiliated with osdepots.com, please refrain from posting direct links to products on Linuxquestions.org (this goes for anyone tho).