Comment Re:I'll explain it this way... (Score 1) 928
Yup - ya can't grep a dead tree.
But in the mid-late 90s, everyone was pretty much on dialup, unless they were at a college in a dorm, etc. I had a high speed connection thru work/school but then CD burners were several hundred dollars each. For me at the time, the best way to get a new distribution for install was to buy the book that came wtih the CD. The various Unleashed books, etc.