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Re: Debian 2.0 official



On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 shaul@rakefet wrote:

> I wonder what are the differences between lsl's (debian) CDs and mine (from 
> www.datom.de/debian). In fact, I wonder what are the differences between the 
> CDs from all the known vendors.
> Does lsl also put KDE, for example, on their (debian) CDs ? I think that it is 
> put by the 2 German small vendors that I saw. Does lsl's CDs has the 
> experimental directory ?
Lsl CDs (should) have KDE (since KDE is part of the distribution, and is
on the contrib CD). Lsl doesn't "put" things on the CDs, they
just burn the official Debian CD images and sell them. You can download
all the CD images from cdimage.debian.org.
You can go to any official Debian site and browse the contents of the
official CDs.

> 
> And if we are on comparing prices for the lsl's (debian) CDs and 
> www.datom.de/debian, then www.datom.de/debian ships 3 CDs. The total price I 
> paid them is $33. Without jweled boxes it is $7 less, I think. No doubt that 
> lsl's CDs cost less. Isn't Cheapbytes even cheaper from lsl ?

Ceap*Bytes don't sell you the official CDs, but their "home brew" CDs. Lsl
is the only vendor I know of that actually sells the official Debian 2.0
CDs.

> 
> I am still not convienced that www.datom.de/debian does not gives you an extra 
> value for the extra $ they cost. I hope so, since I already have their CDs.

I don't think so, since Debian has a lot of packages (around 1700) and I
don't think that datom can add a lot more. (There are two packages I would
like to see part od Debian that Datom might have thought of: C++2LaTeX and
Parim. Do your CDs have these packages?)

Liran.
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