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 15:18:17 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 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$9@dont-email.me> <108mje1$iqm7$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:08:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d02022c15fde7e9fc76c8405b0513a1b"; logging-data="1909249"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18b4TU9dJgr/GwqQ7Cqh3a3SmAp987g42o=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:y2YI3GMFOqJ8vT1ZSpMLjyo4wL0= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73370 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.) -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!