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tumadre123   06-09-2003 at 01:10:38 AM

i thought i heard that linux was free. if so where can i get it?
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poorboy   06-09-2003 at 04:28:57 AM
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Try reading some previous posts... Something to get your head around is the difference between "Free as in Beer" and "Free as in Speech". Linux is usually both, but there's nothing (well, nothing except market realities) to stop folks charging for it, or charging for update services, or the boxed CD sets, etc.

Having said that, you can download several distros for free from <A HREF="http://www.linuxiso.org/" target="_new">http://www.linuxiso.org/</A>.

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zepper   06-09-2003 at 07:39:06 AM
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And you can buy the freely copyable parts of several distros (Mandrake and SuSe are most common), already on CDs for little $$$ on eBay and at www.cheapbytes.com, etc. I just got SuSe 8.2 on eBay. Was like $7. for 5 CDs including shipping.
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tumadre123   06-09-2003 at 11:08:17 PM
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thanks for the suggestion i have to check ebay out. do you know which version supports nodes. i am interested in making a beowulf class computer.
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poorboy   06-10-2003 at 06:25:58 AM
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All distros *can* support it, but it's not quite as simple as that - "Beowulf" is really a whole bunch of components working together. Go have a read <A HREF="http://www.beowulf.org" target="_new">here</A> and <A HREF="http://www.beowulf-underground.org" target="_new">here</A>. Depending on what you're doing, <A HREF="http://openmosix.sourceforge.net" target="_new">OpenMosix</A> might be worth looking into.

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