It was a mix of both - the Ubuntu 6.04 was in fact one of the freely distributed pressed ones, but many were home burned CD-Rs - photos, software, data backups, etc.
Burning tens of DVDs is a little tiresome, but it is well enough scripted that it is easy to slowly swap them in and out while focusing on another task - the brief interruption is barely noticed. It also means that the…
Anecdotal evidence, but I've recently gone through my ancient CD collection (in so doing, I found Ubuntu 6.04 installers, AOL dial-up CDs and other relics) and archived them with GNU DDrescue. It had no problem reading…
It was a mix of both - the Ubuntu 6.04 was in fact one of the freely distributed pressed ones, but many were home burned CD-Rs - photos, software, data backups, etc.
Burning tens of DVDs is a little tiresome, but it is well enough scripted that it is easy to slowly swap them in and out while focusing on another task - the brief interruption is barely noticed. It also means that the…
Anecdotal evidence, but I've recently gone through my ancient CD collection (in so doing, I found Ubuntu 6.04 installers, AOL dial-up CDs and other relics) and archived them with GNU DDrescue. It had no problem reading…