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Old 08-15-2002, 03:14 AM   #1
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being in australia


to all the aussies in here or anyone with information, i live in New South Wales, and i just want to say its soooo hard to find distrobutions, i have had to get mine from magazines in the newsagency, but i would really love to buy a boxed set, i am currently looking for SuSe 8.0, and i am not sure if they can ship it to Australia from the net, but even if they can i am not sure of the price difference and i'm 14 so i don't have a credit card or anythging....can anyone help?? plus i have a dialup modem, though i wouldn't mind donwloading it, theres just sooooo many files and directories.......any info would dearly help....

+garry+
 
Old 08-15-2002, 05:22 AM   #2
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Hi Garry,

SuSE ain't all that. Try using something like wget to capture all the packages, and then do the install from your local hard drive. It might be a little easier that way than doing the FTP install.
 
Old 08-15-2002, 06:07 AM   #3
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hmmmm but i would like a boxed set because it comes with open office doesn't it, and some other stuff, and i want a Linux distro which is pretty much GUI, or isn't SuSe the thing for me ?...
 
Old 08-15-2002, 06:15 AM   #4
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www.everythinglinux.com.au top site

i live on the gold coast, but have 56k @ 31k so this is where i get my linux stuff from

*recieves money from ETL*
 
Old 08-15-2002, 08:43 AM   #5
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Yea, everythinglinux.com.au is good.

They are located in Five Dock in Sydney if you want to pay them a visit.
 
Old 08-17-2002, 04:04 AM   #6
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GT I.N.C., the title of your post really made me laugh!

I saw in the posts:

X Windows crashed!
PHP Problem. Help!
being in australia
Where's my partitions gone?

Being in australia really can't be that much of a problem. My mate is over here in the UK from Melbourne and thinks it's winter and all the girls are too fat!

Bert
 
Old 08-17-2002, 05:20 AM   #7
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no need to worry about downloading all the files just download the iso and burn it to a CD

www.linuxiso.org
 
Old 08-17-2002, 05:39 AM   #8
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yeh but i got only a dialup, *laughs @ bert*
 
Old 08-18-2002, 08:16 AM   #9
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No offence meant GT I.N.C.!

I'll swap my cable modem and house in industrial Birmingham, UK for a dialup modem in Sydney anyday, that's all

Bert
 
Old 08-18-2002, 02:43 PM   #10
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Well SuSE might ship there why wouldn't they.
 
  


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