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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ?
Date: 11 Jan 2025 07:02:02 GMT
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:48:20 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    However there's still most of the olde-tyme core distros.
>    The RHEL branch, Debian, Arch, Slack. Those seem to be holding up.
>    FreeBSD and OpenBSD also and don't forget GenToo.

And SUSE...  I don't remember if any other distros did the same but I have 
a box set which included the installation media and a set of printed 
manuals. I can't remember if it was Best Buy. They were preceded by a 
company that folded. Anyway you could buy the set like any other 
software. 

It was the last gasp of the traditional software purchase with printed 
documentation prior to 'download the iso, burn it to a DVD, and good 
luck.'