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Remember when they'd send you these for free?(sh.itjust.works)

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I was digging through some stuff and stumbled on this. To think it’s been 15 years. Crazy what you used to be able to get a free CD of back in the day.

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rotmulaaginskyrim@programming.dev
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They even shipped this to me in India. Pleasantly surprised at that point.

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rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de
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Man, I remember buying a Linux Format(?) magazine once and breaking out the included 7.10 CD.

Later distros I messed with I remember waiting hours for those few hundred MB to download on my parent’s DSL connection, oh how times have changed!

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Boterham@feddit.de
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I downloaded several distros in the last days and it was faster to download them then copying them on the USB drive. That felt weird.

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hatchet@sh.itjust.works
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As much as I prefer other distributions over it, I am grateful for everything that Ubuntu has done to grow the Linux userbase.

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