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[–] AlmightySnoo 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ubuntu used to ship free CDs too: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ubuntu_10.04_CDs.jpg

They stopped doing that in 2011.

[–] johsny 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, I have a set of KUbuntu 6.10

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are the forum and documentation links the wrong way round?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, you had to read the documentation to learn how to access the forums, and you had to ask on the forums how to access the documentation.

[–] johsny 4 points 1 year ago

Sharp eye, I never noticed that in 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A few years before Ubuntu quite a few companies tried doing their own distributions. Back then it still was common to sell them in a proper software box - CDs or DVDs, manuals and some swag, at minimum stickers, but quite often also pins or some other stuff.

On exhibitions they'd often give away full boxes to get people to try - sometimes the current version, sometimes the last release. I still have a bunch of those in the garage - I think Corel (yes, the painting program guys) should be one of them.