Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Older Hardware Still Works Date: 4 Sep 2025 18:20:00 GMT Lines: 30 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 X-Trace: individual.net pR99cZnX5Iu9Bjt5pDhW9gRuiNETzlMjkFzvUdQXbTLELH2e6I Cancel-Lock: sha1:mNd7ZEvJMMuWWyMymMu+3MqX/FM= sha256:wJG9k5kiAO+6TycgTaC7yZZIw+DHwuAV7ebqfUgqeD8= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73392 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.