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Re: Older Hardware Still Works

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Older Hardware Still Works
Date 2025-08-27 21:55 +0000
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:33:52 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

> In some countries, PC magazines(*) coming with linux distros on CDs
> might have been a thing, as well as books.

The CD is long gone but my copy of 'Red Hat Linux Unleashed' from 1998 had 
one. The magazines had them too. I also have a SuSE distro that came 
shrink wrapped with the media and manuals. 

https://archive.org/details/su-82-dvd-1_202107

Canonical did send free CDs for a while. There was also a company that 
would send CDs of any distro for $7 iirc. I can't remember the company 
name but it sounded like burning CDs was more of a sideline hobby than 
their real business.

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  Re: Older Hardware Still Works Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-27 00:39 +0000
    Re: Older Hardware Still Works Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-27 10:33 +0100
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-27 12:04 +0200
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-27 14:36 -0700
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-28 03:38 +0000
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-27 21:55 +0000
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-27 22:51 -0400
    Re: Older Hardware Still Works Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2025-08-28 18:37 +1000
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-28 19:09 +0000
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-29 01:27 -0400
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-29 00:55 +0000
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-29 04:04 +0000
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-28 23:20 -0700
            Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-08-29 04:42 -0400

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