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submitted 1 year ago by jayandp@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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[-] rikonium@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

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!

[-] Boterham@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] authed@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
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