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Re: [LUG] Free Offer ...



On Fri, 17 May 2002, David Bell wrote:

I have boxed editions (with manuals) of SuSE Personal 7.0 and 7.1, Mandrake 
8.0, a set of Debian 2.2r3 and Caldera Desktop v2.4 discs destined for the 
skip on Tuesday.  If anyone wants them and can collect (Hatherleigh) they are 
welcome.

I was thinking about this..

Many of use have old Boxed sets and ISO's are easy to burn - it would be a 
nice publicity and awareness stunt to provide Linux and related books to 
libraries rather than throwing them away or stuffing them in the attic.

After all - how many of teh books you see in computer sections of 
libraries are less than 5 years old? I can probably spare 1 or 2 of my 
Linux Books and they are certainly more relevent now than the Windows 
Books I have that are the same age.

Best of all we could provide each library with Free software that they 
don't have to worry about piracy with.  People who don't have internet 
access or the tiem to spend 12 hours downloading Linux, Mozilla, Internet 
explorer, paint shop pro or Open Office Could borrow or buy the CD's of 
Free Software like Linux, FreBSD, GIMP, OPenOffice, Gnome Office, Mozilla, 
Apache (now better than IIS on windows as well as unix) - any copies sold 
could raise funds for the LUG, or related groups like YAS, the FSF, etc.

It would work well with advertising for related companies -bookshops can 
say how great their selection of Linux and UNIX books is, computer shops 
and specialists can offer consultation and boxed sets, etc.

Anyone up for attacking this - Pete and I are in Truro - we have a library 
in sore need of this kind of thing and I know 2 or 3 local companies use 
Linux and would be able to advertise on the page in the newspaper.

any other volounteers to pick up cdes and books or to talk to librarians, 
papers and advertisers ?

A.


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