Mandrake Linux 10.0, from 2004. They still work too. Had to buy them on disc, slow dialup internet in those days.

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Mandrake Linux 10.0, from 2004. They still work too. Had to buy them on disc, slow dialup internet in those days. - Lemmy.World

Ubuntu used to ship free CDs too: …wikimedia.org/…/File:Ubuntu_10.04_CDs.jpg

They stopped doing that in 2011.

File:Ubuntu 10.04 CDs.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Yep, I have a set of KUbuntu 6.10

Are the forum and documentation links the wrong way round?
No, you had to read the documentation to learn how to access the forums, and you had to ask on the forums how to access the documentation.
(/s)