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Red Hat To Drop Boxed Retail Distribution

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 19, 2003 @07:05AM from the treasured-collectables dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat, the leading American distributor of Linux, is abandoning the retail channel, the company is expected to announce Monday, says this story in Linux and Main. Non-Red Hat developers will be given a greater role in deciding what's in upcoming Red Hat distributions, too."

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First Post! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-19 07:15 · Score: 0, Offtopic

How about dialup users like me?
Off Topic - Minimal Distro by gmenhorn · 2003-07-19 07:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If I wanted to install the most minimal set of the Linux OS (enough to get the system booted and a shell - no other tools) what distro or how would I go about doing this?