There is a company doing business as XPLinux which you may run across on the internet. They sell burned copies of various linux distros. They ship from Latvia. I just received my third order from them. I am admittedly a very slow learner.

My first order was for Phatlinux and Lycoris. I never could get Phat to work, it would want a password when I tried to boot it and I didn't have the password. Apparently the folks at XPLinux had set it up with a password, copied it, and then didn't include the password. It didn't bother me too much, phatlinux is kind of gimmicky anyway. I had high hopes for Lycoris but when I tried to install it I would get an error message saying one or more modules couldn't be loaded. I tried everything, no luck. I tried it on my wife's computer, same results. I emailed them and they sent me another disk to replace the bad one. The new one had the same error.

Second order was for Red Hat and elx. Red Hat worked great, no problem. Elx would complete the install but would display literally hundreds of error messages when booting. I re installed several times to try to fix it with the same results. It would eventually boot up but was slow as hell. It looks like an interesting distro, I would like to try it again from a good install disk.

Third order was for Slackware, gentoo, peanut, and easilix. The slack CD was broken in 2 pieces. It was not broken during shipping. It had a paper printed label glued to it and when they glued the two halves together they didn't quite get them lined up with each other when they stuck the label on. Peanut has a feature to let you check your installation CD for errors before installing and this one got about 10 seconds into the check and found an error serious enough to keep it from installing. I tried it anyway, it wouldn't work. Next I tried easilix, it wouldn't install. It is also apparently a bad disk. I next tried Gentoo and immediately it went into a CLI install mode and since I ain't very good at running linux from commands and didn't want to get into it tonight I backed out of that install for now. No problems apparent yet with the disk but I really didn't get very far into that one.

OK, the bottom line. Out of 8 distros from XPLinux one works perfect, another one might work, and 6 have problems. They do have about the cheapest copies around, they are only a couple bucks to about 6 or 8 bucks for a several disk set. But it seems you get what you pay for.

I didn't see any sort of question in your post but talking about different distro's and buying them, it seems more suitable in the Distribution forum where its been moved to.