I first got to looking for this file when I started collecting all the DVD's from the LXF site. They have torrents of most of their recent DVD's, but the one for issue #120 is missing a link for downloading that particular DVD
In January 2013, I fired off an email to their support address, and I sent another one almost a year later. In the meantime, I have taken a peek into the Internet to see if something showed up.
The main reason I wanted to have this DVD is because I love the 9.04 release of Ubuntu - the Jaunty Jackalope, and I want to see what LXF has done to customize it in this DVD. It isn't even a good reason really, but I still went after it.
There are some copies available on archive.org. They have a collection of the LXF DVDs, some much older then my collection of LXF DVDs needs to satisfy my need for relative completeness. However it is user-maintaned and nobody has uploaded a copy of DVD 120.
Maybe somebody still has the hardcopy DVD - for heaven's sake, it's only 4 years old, this isn't an archeological project here! There are some "back issues" on sale on ebay, and even amazon offer's a year's subscription to the current version. Linuxformat.ru has a lot of older issues translated into Russian, available for subscribers, but no DVD's come with those.
There was an interesting site that had a listing of all publications by Future Publishing, ltd, which showed the exact DVD I am in search of:
http://www.nsrl.nist.gov/RDS/rds_2.42/ProdList.txt
Future Publishing LXFDVD120 July 2009
I almost want to contact the company to find out if they have the hardcopy DVD somewhere, but it looks like it is more of a record then an inventory.
Well until it shows up on a torrent site, or somebody uploads theirs to archive.org, I'll just have to leave the Internet to work away steadily, perhaps turning up exactly what I needed in time. I'll likely forget about the custom jaunty on LXFDVD120 for the time being, but eventually I will revisit this hunt, and I will be eager to try it once I get it.
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