Used to be you could order free Ubuntu CD’s. Their first release proved controversial. I got like 48 of them as a teen. They’re now going for $10+.
Ubuntu is a Zulu word for an African philosophy of interconnectedness, which is the theme they were going for.
@SwiftOnSecurity when I was in college (2000-2005 or so), as part of a student association (Diskobolo) and the Linux users group (LUG), we ordered (for free) hundreds of Ubuntu CDs each year, and we would give them away to new students that wanted to install Linux... I'd say the initiative was a success: people with interest got to try and know about Linux, the association and the LUG 🙃
@SwiftOnSecurity I still have these CDs on my shelf that I got from their free shipping service when I was 13. It was wild to me to have an officially packaged version of a Linux distro on disc.
My old hacker collective ordered a kit back then that came with discs, posters, stickers and other promo stuff. Think I still have a bunch of it squirreled away here somewhere...