Just a quick post while I’m waiting for a CD to burn. Here’s the thing: back in, ohhh, 1994 or 1995 – I don’t recall exactly when, but the first build of Slackware Linux had just been released – I had this idea that, as I was fortunate enough to have dial-back internet access from my employer, it was no problem to have my little 14.4k modem dialed in all night downloading Linux distros from sunsite.unc.edu at 1k per second. I had this idea that I could spend 400 quid on a CD burner and maybe make a bit of profit selling Linux CDs back to students at just over cost.
I’m glad I didn’t do that. With broadband the way it is at the moment, it actually takes me longer to burn a kubuntu disk than it does to download it in the first place.
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