[Staffslug] MaxTux & Other Unix Suppliers

Dear Fellow-Nerds: I haven't noticed much discussion about UK Unix Suppliers, so I thought I'd try and start one by describing MaxTux, who recently supplied me with 64-Bit OpenSUSE and FreeBSD. MaxTux aims to supply people worldwide, like South Africa. But I'm fairly sure it's not a Multinational Corporation. It centres around one bloke, namely Stephen Lockley of stephen(a)maxtux.co.uk (also 88, Boundary Walk, BA14 0LZ). Parts of the MaxTux Website look outdated, but this seems to be because it shows distros which people bought in the past. If you actually email a request for the Lastest Release or the 64-Bit Version, the Website gets updated and there's no problem. If you want something unusual, they reserve the right to classify it as a Special Request and charge extra, but this doesn't happen with familiar distros for PCs. So MaxTux seems to be a very informal organisation, which relies on Customer Demand to keep up to date. You can expect to get some hand-labelled disks, which might take more than a week to arrive. But if you're specific, there's no problem getting the particular Unix version you want. Faictz Ce Que Vouldras: Frank Mitchell