In the late 90s and early 2000s my company shipped out a Linux distribution on CD monthly, called …
In the late 90s and early 2000s my company shipped out a Linux distribution on CD monthly, called KRUD. Every month we'd take the latest versions of packages for RedHat, plus some notable additions, and build updated media you could use to update or install Red Hat with. It was really nice to be able to install a new system, which we did a lot of, and have basically the latest packages, with Internet-based "yum update"s being fairly minimal after install. So every month we'd burn, IIRC, nearly a thousand CDs and ship them out, mostly around the US. We were in a weird size where we had low enough volume and needed quick enough turn around, that going to big CD duplicators weren't really an option. Anyone remember the Taiyo Yuden CD-R media? We spent a very long time trying various media and eventually settled on it as "the perfect CD-R". We spent years trouble-shooting problems that different people had, even paying people to ship defective media back to us so we could identify if it was burning problems or shipping problems. …
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