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Nostalgic Distros?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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Before 6.2 you had to get them on actual CDs which wasn't an option in many places. Starting with 6.2 they put them online on FTP.
I may be remembering wrong but I am sure I got CD images off FTP for earlier versions as well.
I have been downloading Linux since grabbing floppy images of SLS, used Red Hat for years, and do not remember having more than one version on actual CD that I did not burn myself ( for sure never DVD ).