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Mandrake Linux 10.0, from 2004. They still work too. Had to buy them on disc, slow dialup internet in those days.

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Mandrake Linux 10.0, from 2004. They still work too. Had to buy them on disc, slow dialup internet in those days.

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Attached: 1 image #today I found my #Mandrake #Linux v10 discs, from 2004. Bought them from #linuxwarehouse here in #southafrica, I couldn’t download hundreds of MB over a #dialup in those days. @Linux_Is_Best@mstdn.social
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    Ubuntu used to ship free CDs too: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ubuntu_10.04_CDs.jpg

    They stopped doing that in 2011.

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      Yep, I have a set of KUbuntu 6.10

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        Are the forum and documentation links the wrong way round?

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          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.

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            (/s)

        • johsny@lemmy.world
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          Sharp eye, I never noticed that in 20 years.

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      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.

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