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Re: Older Hardware Still Works

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On Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:34:05 +1000, Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood wrote:

> 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.)

I still have the boxed set of SuSE 8.2 that I bought at BestBuy or maybe 
FutureShop. The name changed along the way although it's the same 
building. 

https://www.linux-distros.com/suse-linux-8-2/

There's a photo of the shrink wrapped box at the bottom of the page. It 
had the media as well as printed manuals.

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Re: Older Hardware Still Works Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2025-09-04 15:34 +1000
  Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-04 18:20 +0000
    Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-05 03:52 -0400
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-05 12:46 +0200
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-05 07:08 -0400
        Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-05 19:36 +0000
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-05 21:52 +0200
            Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-06 04:27 +0000
              Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-06 14:25 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-06 16:53 +0000
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-07 00:03 +0200
                Re: Older Hardware Still Works c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-09-07 01:49 -0400
          Re: Older Hardware Still Works Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2025-09-06 06:58 +0100
      Re: Older Hardware Still Works rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-09-05 19:31 +0000

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