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If anyone is interested.

I see most of them have been mentioned.

FedoraCore 5
Suse 10.2
Knoppix5
Slackware 10 I think it was

A distro that has grown so close to me...

Knoppix STD (Security Tool Distro)]

check out the link, I'm in PTA btw

I also got the OpenCD v 3.1a which has some opensource windows apps on it.

Busy downloading OpenSourceFree CD which is a similar concept but has SLAX built in as a live distro

Nice Avatar GlitchFreak.

Nobody here with the latest Gentoo or Debian releases?

AlphA wrote:Nobody here with the latest Gentoo or Debian releases?

I've got the latest version of Gentoo, 2006.1 .

Would'nt mind checking it out....I've heard a lot about it.

I used Gentoo for a long time, but I've moved back to Arch Linux now. My main problem with Gentoo is that everything needs to be compiled from source, so a full installation takes a day or two - if you get everything right the first time. If you update regularly you're almost constantly going to be compiling something.... And the packages in the stable branch of Portage are regularly broken.

The full Live CD ISO is on this month's PC Format cover disc, but I can post you a copy of it if you would like?

Futs wrote:If anyone is interested.

I see most of them have been mentioned.

FedoraCore 5
Suse 10.2
Knoppix5
Slackware 10 I think it was

A distro that has grown so close to me...

Knoppix STD (Security Tool Distro)]

check out the link, I'm in PTA btw

Thanks Futs! List has been updated. BTW, is that Suse 10.2 the 32-bit or 64-bit version?

Judas wrote:I used Gentoo for a long time, but I've moved back to Arch Linux now. My main problem with Gentoo is that everything needs to be compiled from source, so a full installation takes a day or two - if you get everything right the first time. If you update regularly you're almost constantly going to be compiling something.... And the packages in the stable branch of Portage are regularly broken.

The full Live CD ISO is on this month's PC Format cover disc, but I can post you a copy of it if you would like?

Thanks for the offer Judas.......nah....dont worry about mailing it to me. Using (K)ubuntu has made me really lazy (lovely deb repositories!), so the thought of compiling every time I update doesn't quite appeal to me.....thanks for the heads up.

Would also like to get my hands on a recent "pure" Debian release. We'll wait and see if anybody here has it.

Thanks again....

@Futs : Seeing as you like Knoppix STD, have you tried
BackTrack ???

Really nice.

((You can add it AlphA))

@Mori : Haven't used it yet, somone mentioned it to me sometime ago but never got arround to downloading it and eventually forgot about it.

Checked the site quickly and it has metasploit (oh happy day) I only recently started playing with the windows version, They did a good job with Cygwin.

I'll try and download it sometime. many thanks.

@mav3rick : Suse10.2 would be 32-bit, Just checked the folder again and I see I've missed RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 U4 (32-bit, 4cds)

I am on the lower South Coast I have
1. Kubuntu 5.10 Live + Install

Hi All.

I'm going to be away from an internet connection for the next couple of days. Please keep this thread going and I will update the list when I get back.

Also if there are any other members who have tons of bandwidth and are willing to help us out by downloading a distro then please contact us and we will point you to the ones we still need.

Thanks again to all that have helped so far!

So ideas of who needs what?

GlitchFreak wrote:So ideas of who needs what?

Ok, I'm still looking for Suse 10.2 64-bit.

I think AlphA wanted Debian.

And Mori wanted Slack 11.

GlitchFreak wrote:So ideas of who needs what?

Fedora Core 6 would be good, if you can get your hands on it.

AlphA wrote:Would also like to get my hands on a recent "pure" Debian release. We'll wait and see if anybody here has it.
Thanks again....

I can get 3.1 RC1 .. ?

Judas wrote: Fedora Core 6 would be good, if you can get your hands on it.

5 CD's or DVD?

GlitchFreak wrote:

Judas wrote: Fedora Core 6 would be good, if you can get your hands on it.

5 CD's or DVD?

I vote DVD.

mav3rick wrote: I vote DVD.

K, might take a day or 2.

My friend at work is getting slackware 11 tonight. So you can add that aswell.

GlitchFreak wrote:

AlphA wrote:Would also like to get my hands on a recent "pure" Debian release. We'll wait and see if anybody here has it.
Thanks again....

I can get 3.1 RC1 .. ?

Cool ... Share and share alike

AlphA wrote: Cool ... Share and share alike

There are a few binary cd iso's... 1 thru 10 and 2 binary dvd's ?

Any ideas which one?

GlitchFreak wrote:

AlphA wrote: Cool ... Share and share alike

There are a few binary cd iso's... 1 thru 10 and 2 binary dvd's ?

Any ideas which one?

I dont have a clue - I havent used Debian since the release about 3-4 years ago!

you should maybe pm IReadYourEmail, think he's the biggest Debian fan out there

He might even participate

You can add Gentoo 2006.1 to my list, seeing that it came on the latest cover disc.

(Now if only it wouldn't blow up in my face when I install it...)