In Australia (dunno about elsewhere),
LinuxWorld (
http://linuxworld.com.au) create "MiniBooks". The last offering was a 6CD set including RedHat 8.0 (3cd's), Mandrake 9.0(2cd's) and an assortment of Linux Applications (KOffice 1.2, Apache & PHP, 8 IM Clients, Mozilla 1.2.1, PostgreSQL 7.3, IBM Java 2, SKD 1.4.1, and other stuff)