I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.

Wow, I remember those guys. Never got media from them but I do remember
the Ads for them.

I got on their subscription list a little late in the game. I still have
three or four of their Simtel CDs around here somewhere.

Mike
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Re: Re: Screaming Into The Vo
By: nblade to Nightfox on Mon Jan 05 2026 01:31 pm

At least I seem to remember it that way, I could be mistaken. Of course that is around the same time, I would buy Red Hat Linux for the phyical media so I wouldn't have to DL it and burn it to CD (or was it DVD by then??)

I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.

Nightfox
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Re: Re: Screaming Into The Vo
By: Nightfox to nblade on Mon Jan 05 2026 14:20:46

In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical disc

I had one of those. It came with Slackware Linux. First distro I ever used. This around '93, I believe. There was no GUI, no real documentation so after fumbling about for...oh, a day, I scraped it. I guess I just wasn't ready for it yet.
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Nightfox wrote to nblade <=-

I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical
disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.

Wow, I remember those guys. Never got media from them but I do remember
the Ads for them.

... The number you have dailed...Nine-one-one...has been changed.
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Mortar M. wrote to Nightfox <=-

I had one of those. It came with Slackware Linux. First distro I ever used. This around '93, I believe. There was no GUI, no real documentation so after fumbling about for...oh, a day, I scraped it. I guess I just wasn't ready for it yet. --- SBBSecho 3.34-Linux

Slackware Linux, that was the first one I ever tried as well. Of course I had download the floppy images. Yes floppy drive images. I had something like 30 or so floppies, that I used to install it. At that point, yes it was more like something you experiment with. Not something you use. I don't think I really started using Linux until one of the Red Hat distro.



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Hello Nightfox!

05 Jan 26 14:20, you wrote to nblade:

I did that too. In the mid-late 90s, there was a company based in California called Walnut Creek that would burn Linux ISOs to optical
disc (CD-R and DVD-R) and mail it to you for only the cost of the
media, so you wouldn't have to download it yourself.

There was also one name Infomagic that came with 6 CDs and had many distros. I remeber I subscribed to them and every couple of months I would receive a letter/box with those CDs. I still have them at my parent's house.

Nightfox
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s2r


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MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

I had a coworker who had a Windows phone. He liked it. I was actually not aware of when they discontinued them but from this conversation I guess they have.

Yeah, the story of Steven Elop. He has quite a career that I can't
fully document here. He was brought into Macromedia when his buddy was
made CEO, promoted to CEO right before they were bought by Adobe,
worked as a CEO at at least one company for a year and one day to vest
his stocks, then bailed, was promoted at Microsoft, then appointed CEO
of Nokia, where he killed off SymbianOS in favor of Windows Phone and
killed the company, to then be acquired *by* Microsoft. Some call him a
trojan horse.

He landed OK, after killing the company and selling to Microsoft, he
received a 18.8 million euro bonus - and was hied by Microsoft!



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MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

dozen Aston Martin racing cars, a 1960s JaG, a Porsche 917, and more... WHen realized that all of the Aston Martins were donated from a personal

ollectio

When you realized that, what? Looks like maybe you didn't complete a thought there? ;)

All of the Aston Martins belonged to a private collector. Had to be
millions of dollars worth of cars.



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nblade wrote to Nightfox <=-

Wow, I remember those guys. Never got media from them but I do remember the Ads for them.

Way Back When, on a 768k/128k DSL line, it was easier buying Linux isos
from Walnut Creek than downloading them.



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I suspect a lot of the layoffs we are seeing are due to corporations adjustin to the fact their budgets are very badly balanced and are using the AI excuse for PR purposes for the most part.

Bingo!

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