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Re: Red Hat 6.1 for Sale!
Eli Marmor wrote:
>
> CheapBytes began to sell Red Hat 6.1. An immediate shipping costs
> $5.99, while a pre-order of an image on a normal CD (rather than
> CD-R) costs $1.99 (all prices exclude shipping). You can also pre-
> order 2 CDS (the image AND the SRPMs) for $3.49.
Wow they are quick!
It's one thing to download it and find out the next day that it's the
beta,
but it's another thing to burn a thousand CDs and ship the image to a cd
factory.
Though I believe that it is the real thing, as the rumor says it will be
announced in monday anyway.
(I guess they wanted to give mirrors a chance to get it in time, but
screwed up and put it on the main ftp too)
Anyway I'm downloading it, and I'll be done in about 12 hours (going at
15 K/s).
So tell me if you want me to burn it for you.
> Although Red Hat is expected to announce 6.1 on Monday, no
> availability is expected for the following weeks; After all, it
> takes some time to print docs, to burn CDs (real, not CDRs), to
> produce packages, etc. But CheapBytes already has the un-official
> release...
I would expect them to print manuals earlier, I wonder if they have them
in postscript on the CD....
I have an offtopic question too, how do they actually press CDs? how
much time does it take?
Cheers,
Yoni.
--
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck,
is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners...
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