On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, jpkotta wrote:
If you want to dual boot with Linux as one of your OSes, try Mandrake.
I must apologize for mentioning Mandrake 9.2 to Jonathan Osuch. I wasn't favourably impressed with their 6.1 release, and their 9.2 release on DVD is a bigger headache. The floppy "loader" that this distribution made for me doesn't work without the DVD, and Win32s complains about GRUB and Lilo regarding how the hard drive is partitioned, so Linux will run on this system from loadlin (later). I have a list of complaints about MacMillan's release of Linux elsewhere, but someone picked a nit in one of my points that just about demands investigation into whether the original Debian release of the 2.2.13 kernel can handle my hard drive. Don't hold your breath though. FRACTINT for DOS is still a touch more functional than XFractint, and I hav some commitments to meet before I start playing with commands that require parameters and make me curse. (...)
All it will cost you is time to download it (3 CDs, 650 MB each).
Over phone lines that's about twelve days, so the magazine is probably cheaper. Jenerally, I would say that Linux was born on the net, it grows on the net, and I wouldn't recommend taking anything more than a package at a time from the net. Try a minimalistic distribution. Maybe you can even figure out how to use SRPMS. The original author's tools were probably gnuzipped tarballs.