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When i got some i only ordered 5 :>
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will be 5less or was that 4less now? :P
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RE: Ubuntu No Longer Free CD's? thoughts about this
I ordered a few, only because I need 32 bit and 64 bit, and it came with mac ones (which I didn't even need). I haven't installed it yet, but I will. Tbh, it costs them like 5 pounds everytime they send some disks.  If people like Sam wouldn't have abused the system, this wouldn't happen and the service would still have some use.
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RE: Ubuntu No Longer Free CD's? thoughts about this
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will it make people use OpenSuse? Fedora? other free ones , Ubuntu have every right to do what there doing but i can see a downslide in there usage of Ubuntu
True. But this is only to stop abusers like sonicsam and traxor (:refuck:) from ordering a few thousand cds :dodgy:
People with fast internet connections can download the new versions but its people like me who have uber sucky connections that will suffer.
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will it make people use OpenSuse? Fedora? other free ones , Ubuntu have every right to do what there doing but i can see a downslide in there usage of Ubuntu
True. But this is only to stop abusers like sonicsam and traxor (:refuck:) from ordering a few thousand cds :dodgy:
People with fast internet connections can download the new versions but its people like me who have uber sucky connections that will suffer.
Abusers suck.

i know what you mean, Even though i have the fastest ADSL  in Aussie 1500/256 its still not fast enough IMO , i dont think it'll be so bad, just pre order a copy or something
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RE: Ubuntu No Longer Free CD's? thoughts about this
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i know what you mean, Even though i have the fastest ADSL  in Aussie 1500/256 its still not fast enough IMO , i dont think it'll be so bad, just pre order a copy or something
I order like 20 discs (thats what i did for the last version) cause i have friends at uni and friends who live near me. Instead of all of us ordering one-two, i order for all of us. Now its going to be more difficult for me to download 600 some MB at 8kbps (basically it takes a bit over a day approx) and then to write a copy and circulate it between all of them.
Too much of a pain tbh :sad:
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RE: Ubuntu No Longer Free CD's? thoughts about this
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i know what you mean, Even though i have the fastest ADSL  in Aussie 1500/256 its still not fast enough IMO , i dont think it'll be so bad, just pre order a copy or something
:-/ err thats not the fastest... adsl2+ is where the top speed is 24000k/1000k :P
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I got 5 Ubuntu discs a while ago to test it out and share it (like it said to :p). I ran it off the CD as I didn't wanna install it reinstall windows to make it a dual boot machine. The startup time is the longest of any distro I've ever used! Now I know that it's slower running from a CD, but I used Knoppix in exactly the same way and with much better results.

I don't see people paying for discs when other distros are still available for free, especially seeing as Ubuntu doesn't seem to be as popular as others right now *-)
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I got 5 Ubuntu discs a while ago to test it out and share it (like it said to :p). I ran it off the CD as I didn't wanna install it reinstall windows to make it a dual boot machine. The startup time is the longest of any distro I've ever used! Now I know that it's slower running from a CD, but I used Knoppix in exactly the same way and with much better results.

I don't see people paying for discs when other distros are still available for free, especially seeing as Ubuntu doesn't seem to be as popular as others right now *-)

Knoppix was designed as a LiveCD, its optimized as a LiveCD
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err thats not the fastest... adsl2+ is where the top speed is 24000k/1000
im still stuck on ADSL1 dude, ADSL2 aint available where i am in Melbourne
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RE: Ubuntu No Longer Free CD's? thoughts about this
hm... i asked for one but it never came...
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