>From The langa letter:
3) Linux, "Just Like Mom Used To Burn"
Hi Fred, I came across this site the other day and did not find
it mentioned doing a search of your site.
http://www.linuxiso.org . This is what you might call 'Linux
out the wazoo'. Here you will find the ISO's for 35 different
flavors of Linux. Best regards, Tim
Holy cow--- what a time saver! Thanks Tim!
If you have a fast connection, you can go to this site and download---
for free--- a file containing a CD disk image of a standard Linux
distribution: That's an exact copy of a complete, ready-to install Linux
distribution, just as it ships on a CD.
The site describes these copies this way:
Think of it as the equivalent of a screen capture, but instead
of capturing the information on a screen, this image captures
all of the information on a particular Linux distribution's
cdrom. When burned as a disk image, the .iso file is turned
into a duplicate cd of the original cd.
If you're not familiar with the shorthand jargon, ISO refers to the
"International Organization for Standardization," and in this context is
short for "ISO 9660," an international format standard for CD-ROM
adopted
by the ISO. An ISO 9660 (or "ISO" for short) CD should be readable on
any
standard CD drive.
So, you download these files, and then burn them as a disk image (not
just as a plain file) to a CD, and presto--- you have a duplicate of the
setup CD for whichever Linux flavor you chose to download.
This has got to be about the easiest way to experiment with many flavors
of Linux. Very handy!