11-06-2001
First of all. With the 7 cd's only 2 of them are the O/S itself. The rest is usually doc's and programs for the O/S. Lots of which you wouldn't use especially if you new to linux you wouldn't.
As Kelam Magus said you can get a copy from a book store. Most comman is Redhat that comes with it. But there are other versions. That way you also get a book :-)
Though if your only new to Linux I wouldn't go and spend a heap of money on it. What if you don't like it? You would like itbut what if you don't or want to change the distro? So go with the cheap option until you get a distro you like and want to use 100% of your time :-)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
debian-distro-info
DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)
NAME
debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions
SYNOPSIS
debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS
--date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
--alias=DIST
print the alias (stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument. Only distribution code-
names composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as stable, testing or unstable,
then the same codename passed as argument is returned.
-a, --all
list all known versions
-d, --devel
latest development version
-o, --old
latest old (stable) version
-s, --stable
latest stable version
--supported
list of all supported stable versions
-t, --testing
latest testing version
--unsupported
list of all unsupported stable versions
-c, --codename
print the codename (default)
-r, --release
print the release version
-f, --fullname
print the full name
SEE ALSO
distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)
AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
distro-info January 2011 DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)