Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Older Hardware Still Works Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:34:05 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <4vecnYdHDPuMwwT1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <08ldnl-8p5.ln1@otis.foo> <1083h1b$402c$2@dont-email.me> <5q90ol-l52.ln1@otis.foo> <108lk3i$br9n$9@dont-email.me> <108qtpn$1n18s$4@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d02022c15fde7e9fc76c8405b0513a1b"; logging-data="1909249"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194Y6YDJHzDtG37krzdsayWHmKKpuJuD3A=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:x7PoADv6piEvsac9EpOfKUQ9y5c= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73369 Groovy hepcat Lawrence D’Oliveiro was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:55 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it. > On Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:37:33 +1000, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote: > >> True, but getting them from magazine cover CDs/DVDs wasn't. Nor was >> ordering a disk set from a disk set vendor. > > Ah, fair enough. There was even a period when the Ubuntu project would > happily send out CDs for free to anyone in the world who asked. Yes. And you could even buy Linux CDs in shops. I've acquired some that way. My first distro was Slackware 3.4 bought from a computer shop in the heart of Melbourne. (That shop no longer exists, sadly! It closed down a couple years or so ago after surviving for many years. There are many pressures on small businesses these days: increased rent and council rates, fewer people buying their merchandise, customer base moving online, etc. And the pandemic put the last nail in the coffin, I guess.) -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!