Used to be you could order free Ubuntu CD’s. Their first release proved controversial. I got like 48 of them as a teen. They’re now going for $10+.
Ubuntu is a Zulu word for an African philosophy of interconnectedness, which is the theme they were going for.
@SwiftOnSecurity so you're telling me I should be selling my copies 🤔
@SwiftOnSecurity Did they add a #furry to the cover art of the second release? If not, when were #furries officially added to #ubuntu?
@SwiftOnSecurity Really? I might have a stack of them in my attic! I’ll be rich!!
@SwiftOnSecurity I have them, too... don't know exactly how many copies I had, but I had them, too...
@SwiftOnSecurity I wonder how much they actually sell for?
@SwiftOnSecurity I’ve still got some of them. Even have the AMD64/PowerPC variants, which are probably even more rare.
I worked for Canonical from 2012 to 2020, but that was long after the Warty release. Their free CD system was called ShipIt, and while you could technically order individual CDs, it was preferred to ship multiple ones to people to distribute at LUGs/events, and indeed I got these to distribute to our local LUG.
@SwiftOnSecurity wha??? Are people actually paying that?
My old hacker collective ordered a kit back then that came with discs, posters, stickers and other promo stuff. Think I still have a bunch of it squirreled away here somewhere...
@SwiftOnSecurity I threw mine away two years ago 😭
@SwiftOnSecurity wow, I used to have a box of them as I tried to convince people in IBM to install it as their work OS
@SwiftOnSecurity I still have these CDs on my shelf that I got from their free shipping service when I was 13. It was wild to me to have an officially packaged version of a Linux distro on disc.
@SwiftOnSecurity I'm pretty sure I had one of those...
@SwiftOnSecurity I have one around here someplace.
@SwiftOnSecurity I had a ubuntu-branded ogio messenger bag back in ~2012, probably should've kept that then
@SwiftOnSecurity when I was in college (2000-2005 or so), as part of a student association (Diskobolo) and the Linux users group (LUG), we ordered (for free) hundreds of Ubuntu CDs each year, and we would give them away to new students that wanted to install Linux... I'd say the initiative was a success: people with interest got to try and know about Linux, the association and the LUG 🙃
@SwiftOnSecurity LOL ok. Still impressed. 10 bucks is 10 bucks