I've tried to find them to no avail. I'm guessing the box sets just aren't made anymore, but I figured it's worth asking in case there's some obscure one out there somewhere.
To clarify, I'm looking for a more recent Linux version. I know the older ones can be found on auction sites and the like.
21 Comments
ipacialsection@startrek.website · 40 pts · 2y
No distro I'm aware of still provides official box sets and CDs. Debian still provides materials for third parties to make them, though. Most of the vendors of pre-burned Linux media have also shut down, but one that seems to still exist (and offers Debian box sets) is https://www.shoplinuxonline.com/ .
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Thank you. I see the DVDs and the USB sticks, but how can you tell which ones actually come as a box set? It's really the box I'm interested in.
ipacialsection@startrek.website · 4 pts · 2y
I was speaking of the Debian "full archive" 21-DVD sets: https://www.shoplinuxonline.com/debian-full.html
But I don't know about how they package it, so it might not be a "box set" as you describe.
redrumBot@lemmy.ml · 28 pts · 2y
Debian has a list of vendors who sell it in a media (USB, DVD...), some of them also sell other distros.
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Thanks. I was hoping for an actual set in like a cardboard box.
dallen@programming.dev · 9 pts · 2y
I remember getting a Ubuntu CD box set many years ago when I ordered free disks in the mail as a teenager. The box was well constructed, prints of high quality and the CD labels were especially sharp.
Crazy how physical media was king back then.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
You can from some of those vendors
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 21 pts · 2y
Here's a Ubuntu USB-stick sold on German amazon: https://www.amazon.de/Linux-Ubuntu-mit-Bit-Stick/dp/B0C3RH74Z9/
tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
I’m not sure if I would trust a third-party selling an operating system on a disk nowadays
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Wie komisch! I actually know German, but they don't deliver to the USA. Thank you, though.
satanmat@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Tee hee. Maybe you could go to Circuit City?
Sorry.
Doing no research, you might find a third party book that has a cd dvd ?
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
Warning: trigger activated, loading and playing long lost childhood memory:
🎵 "WELCOME TO CIRCUIT CITY, WHERE SERVICE IS STATE OF THE ART" 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPWRWg83Zvs
gregorum@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
They never sold Linux afaik, and I spent a lot of time there. The only place I saw Red Hat being sold was Babbage’s
0x0@programming.dev · 5 pts · 2y
Slackware does, I think.
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Sackware Store seems to be down right now. Unfortunate.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
Can you make your own?
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y
Can I make my own Linux install media? Yes. I do it all the time. Can I make my own software box with cool artwork and booklets and various other goodies? No.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 2y
Well you could always get creative and turn this into an art project.
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
I could, but I have no aptitude for visual art. I'd sooner buy one of the vintage Linux boxes. And I may very well do that.
OmgItBurns@discuss.online · 1 pts · 2y
I'm not aware of anything. Why are you looking, maybe there is something similar out there.
janNatan@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y
Mostly just purely nostalgic reasons, computer software in boxes.