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.

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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/ .

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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.

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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.

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Debian has a list of vendors who sell it in a media (USB, DVD…), some of them also sell other distros.

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Thanks. I was hoping for an actual set in like a cardboard box.

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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.

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You can from some of those vendors

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Here’s a Ubuntu USB-stick sold on German amazon: https://www.amazon.de/Linux-Ubuntu-mit-Bit-Stick/dp/B0C3RH74Z9/

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I’m not sure if I would trust a third-party selling an operating system on a disk nowadays

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Wie komisch! I actually know German, but they don’t deliver to the USA. Thank you, though.

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OpenSUSE is. Maybe SUSE also but not sure.

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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 ?

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Circuit City

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🎵 “WELCOME TO CIRCUIT CITY, WHERE SERVICE IS STATE OF THE ART” 🎵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPWRWg83Zvs

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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

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