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Legal copies of Free Software is available: o ElxLinux: India's much appreciated desktop GNU/Linux distro. Made in Hyderabad! o Knoppix: See the power of GNU/Linux without even loading it on your harddisk. Boots from CD Rom in minutes. o Dynebolic: Another innovative solution similar to Knoppix. o Suse8.1: Europe's most popular GNU/Linux distro. This is only an evaluation CD. SuSE licenses cost a few dollars each. o RedHat 7.3 and 8.0: Hundreds and apps and the entire operating system. o Shortly to be acquired: Debian 3.0, Mandrake 9.0 or latter. Fresh and scratch-free copies of the above CDs have been recently procured from www.linuxplaza.org. In keeping with the spirit of the Free Software movement, we believe in sharing software. If you need a limited number, we can offer to make copies at cost (Rs 14 per CD plus dustjacket Rs 3 each). If you need more copies, we recommend you order from www.linuxplaza.org (at Rs 35 per CD plus courier charges). This would also help sustain an affordable commercial service. This offer is available only in Goa. But linuxplaza runs a service nationwide. For a list of what all is available, please see http://sofall.vze.com -- a site to share software set up by Ajay Cuncolienkar of Mapusa/Khandola Government College in Goa. Please enter your contributions there, so that we can make Free Software go further. FN -- Frederick Noronha Freelance Journalist Goa India 0091.832.2409490/2409783 http://www.bytesforall.org Writing with a difference ... on what makes *the* difference