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| From | Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: Older Hardware Still Works |
| Date | Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:18:17 +1000 |
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Groovy hepcat rbowman was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Thu, 28 Aug
2025 07:55 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.
> 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.
There were quite a few companies that did that. Not so many now, but
there are still some. Most were/are probably one-man operations. One
bloke shut up shop right after I ordered a disk set from him, because
he broke up with his missus.
If anyone's interested in buying a set of disks or even a distro repos
on a USB stick, you might try linuxcollections.com. (And no, I don't
work for them. Nor am I being paid for this. It's just the most recent
company I've bought a distro on a stick from.)
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