“You want to check out the Linux operating system, but you don’t
want to spend hours downloading hundreds of megabytes of Linux
files? Your options so far have been the Caldera and Red Hat Linux
distributions, which are readily available in retail stores and via
mail order.”
“But a group of three companies announced this week that
they’ve come together to make the Debian Project’s GNU/Linux, a
popular noncommercial distribution, available at retail.”
“With the help of VA Linux Systems (a provider of PCs with
preinstalled Linux), O’Reilly Associates (a publisher of computer
books), and SGI (a maker of high-performance graphics-oriented
PCs), the Debian GNU/Linux package will be available at a suggested
introductory price of $19.95…”