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02-25-2005, 10:56 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Pepperland
Distribution: Arch Wombat, FreeBSD Current, OpenBSD 3.7
Posts: 238
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Ready to start contributing to Linux but I don't know how really
I'd like to buy Slackware because I enjoy it so much. Unfortunately I don't really know where to go for this. I'm not going to go through some shady black market deal to buy this and I want to know that my hard earned dollar contributes to the right place and such. When I'm getting this amazing software for free I feel kind of guilty. I'd like to buy Slack but where? Sure, I could get it from some guy named Joe running an illegal pirating business out of his house but I need something reliable and at the same time I need to know that I'm contributing to something that will do some good.
I am very hesitant to give out my credit card number to anyone, although I do trust Amazon.com, but they only sell SuSE and Mandrake I think. At the same time I'm sure I'm not going to be able to walk into Best Buy and ask them for a copy, the net is my only option I'm sure and again I'm not going to give me card number to "Joe". Any helpful advice would be great. Thanks.
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02-25-2005, 11:01 PM
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Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: Slack
Posts: 122
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Would you being willing to give the official slackware site you card info? I pretty sure patrick isn't going to rip you off?
http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store
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02-25-2005, 11:15 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Pepperland
Distribution: Arch Wombat, FreeBSD Current, OpenBSD 3.7
Posts: 238
Original Poster
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Ehh... still a bit nervous but this site looks pretty cool.
Now we're talking! Slack T-Shirts and Software, I might buy from this place.. Thanks for the link.
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02-25-2005, 11:41 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: lost in the midwest...
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 1,098
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thats the official slack site...it doesn't get anymore slack than that 
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02-26-2005, 07:14 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Asheville,NC
Distribution: Vector
Posts: 58
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02-26-2005, 10:34 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: middle of a cornfield, IL
Distribution: Kanotix HD Install, Debian Testing, XP Pro,Vista RC1
Posts: 145
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Several years ago I bought a copy of Slackware at Circuit City of all places.
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