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.
As much as I prefer other distributions over it, I am grateful for everything that Ubuntu has done to grow the Linux userbase.
They even shipped this to me in India. Pleasantly surprised at that point.
Mexico, too. First time I felt the internet was a part of the real world. Took a couple of months but they even sent stickers!
I was listed on the page of people who might burn one for you for free!
How often did someone take you up on the offer?
Twice, I think? It’s been many years, I think I added myself there when 9.04 was the hot new thing, so around 2009.
This is more or less how I got started. I’d order a few of them, and my computers class teacher was super cool. Let me install it on some older machines destined for ewaste.
I had a bunch of these for the first release. I threw them away ages ago sadly.
have one from the 10.10 version and a Kubuntu 10.10…I was super excited about receiving international mail for the first time in my life! tried uploading the pictures but I get error messages by jerboa 🥲
Hey fellow jerboaer, sometimes the spouted errors are nonsense and if you actually try to upload the image from the website it tells you the image is too big
Thanks man
Lemmy know if u find an easy way to compress images, I’m interested in uploading some too
Yeah, try compressing the images smaller. Some Lemmy servers have upload size limits. Or you can host the picture elsewhere and then just link it using:
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I remember my dad had one of these when I was young. I think it comes with a sticker too, cuz I remember sticking it onto a kitchen cabinet.
The stickers are that folded white slip behind the disc in the picture. I forgot to take a picture of them, but they don’t look great since they were transparent and the adhesive has degraded into a patchy yellow/orange mess. A bit of a shame, but time marches on.
Don’t, you’re making me well up. A while ago my hard drive died and I was looking for a flash drive to live boot. Only one I had was months old. Tried to get a new one, couldn’t. Tried to order online, couldn’t. It’s crazy how hard it is when they used to literally send out the things for free.
This could be of help if you have Android: https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.depau.etchdroid/
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To bad there’s no app to turn your phone itself into a live USB, I would have loved that a few months agoSomething like DriveDroid (requires root): https://softwarebakery.com/projects/drivedroid ?
@user224
Unfortunately my phone is not rootable (every phone I get from now on I’m gonna do more research on first to make sure I don’t make that mistake again) but otherwise yeah that’s amazingI feel you so much on this. My previous phone was a Samsung Note 3 and man that thing just kept going. I used about 5 different ROMs on it over the years. But it wasn’t keeping up with apps anymore. Thought I did thorough research when I replaced it with a S9+. Realised too late that some models can’t be rooted and guess what I have? Yep, one of those models 🤦🏻♀️ Now stuck with Samsung crap for the next however many years because I can’t afford to just buy a different phone. Even more so because the screen has cracked twice (fixed first time, can’t afford again). My Note3 got thrown off a 2nd story deck onto concrete twice and abused by my kids and kept on trucking no problem (apart from some scratches and dent to the frame). This S9 feels like it breaks being sneezed at 😞
to be fair if you don’t have a Ventoy stick with a dozen or so distros and recovery tools by now you deserve to be scrambling for a boot disk
😱 I’d never heard of a Ventoy stick until you mentioned it. Thank you.
I remember wishing AOL’s free disks were on CD-RW :-)
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!
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.
Nostalgic! Ordered 5 of these at the time and distributed among the good people :)
They don’t anymore?
https://canonical.com/blog/shipit-comes-to-an-end
They’ve switched to just downloads these days. There are some third parties that still make and sell discs for pretty cheap though.
