Longtime ago when I knew only a little about Linux and learning it myself without a Guru I was looking for any Linux distribution I could lay hands on.
There was nobody in my city of Kandy except Anuradha (I only knew him through others and by then he had left Kandy) and when I entered a KIOSK and asked a young guy whether he had Linux CDs (he was doing hardware work (installation and menial jobs) he showed me ALT Linux probably a Redhat derivative then installed in one of the computers.
I asked him a copy for money and he did not have (then a rewritable CD ROMs were rare to find) a CD writer to copy.
I had it at home though.
After months of delay he gave me one.
That did not work because it was written on Microsoft by Nero.
Later I found another clever guy in Colombo who used to go to Singapore to get CDs including Linux.
His copy also I could not mount and I was looking for a copy for a long time and gave it up since by that time I had host of Linux (and books which included Joy of Linux- written the style of Joy of Sex) to play with and learn.
This Colombo guy got it for me from Singapore.
The guy from Kandy went abroad and I gave him good reference and advice that included don't bother to send me an email and do not come back to Sri-Lanka.
He followed my advice to the letter and I have lost track of him.
If he happens to read this Hello, How are you in U.K?
Then next thing I knew about ALT Linux was that there is a Russian distribution.
I download a copy in Singapore and unfortunately that was also Russian,
Then they had 4 GB odd English version only which I could not download in Sri-Lanka.
Hear this, yesterday I downloaded two CDs (now three) from biblio.org and they are pretty good.
Military style clean and organized, KDE 3 with Flash plugging.
Unfortunately it cannot mount or read Ext 4 partitions.
I expected somethings like gcompris and the like but they were not there.
Today i tested the light version live and it is almost similar to the Desktop version and in my definition and criteria it is not at all light and over 650 MiB.
But it is sleeker than the the desktop version.
Anyway I am extremely happy and now onwards I am promoting this in Sri-Lanka
I asked him a copy for money and he did not have (then a rewritable CD ROMs were rare to find) a CD writer to copy.
I had it at home though.
After months of delay he gave me one.
That did not work because it was written on Microsoft by Nero.
Later I found another clever guy in Colombo who used to go to Singapore to get CDs including Linux.
His copy also I could not mount and I was looking for a copy for a long time and gave it up since by that time I had host of Linux (and books which included Joy of Linux- written the style of Joy of Sex) to play with and learn.
This Colombo guy got it for me from Singapore.
The guy from Kandy went abroad and I gave him good reference and advice that included don't bother to send me an email and do not come back to Sri-Lanka.
He followed my advice to the letter and I have lost track of him.
If he happens to read this Hello, How are you in U.K?
Then next thing I knew about ALT Linux was that there is a Russian distribution.
I download a copy in Singapore and unfortunately that was also Russian,
Then they had 4 GB odd English version only which I could not download in Sri-Lanka.
Hear this, yesterday I downloaded two CDs (now three) from biblio.org and they are pretty good.
Military style clean and organized, KDE 3 with Flash plugging.
Unfortunately it cannot mount or read Ext 4 partitions.
I expected somethings like gcompris and the like but they were not there.
Today i tested the light version live and it is almost similar to the Desktop version and in my definition and criteria it is not at all light and over 650 MiB.
But it is sleeker than the the desktop version.
Anyway I am extremely happy and now onwards I am promoting this in Sri-Lanka
