[nflug] Let's go old, old, old school linux

[Brad Bartram]

Thanks.  I was trying to get there earlier, but it kept on refusing my
connection - now I know why.
On Jan 4, 2008 10:26 AM, Rob Dege <livemotion at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> If you're looking for some really old RedHat ISO's, try the RedHat
> archives:
>
> ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/
>
> The allowed users via ftp is fairly low, so it'll be, shall we say,
> challenging to get in.  But once you are, you should have access to all
> distros as old as redhat 1.0.  Not sure if they still have the ISO's
> there, but I was there a few days ago and was downloading some rpms for
> redhat 7.2
>
> -Rob
>
> On Jan 4, 2008 10:11 AM, David Liana < dliana at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>
> > You could get old install CD's and install them in a VM (I've had good
> > luck with qemu and some versions of vmware are free):
> > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/
> > http://oldlinux.org/
> >
> > I think I have a few old distros on CD's from books (I'm in Rochester,
> > though).  I use to have a boxed set of RedHat 7.0 and Caldera
> > 2.something.
> >
> >
> > Quoting Brad Bartram < brad.bartram at gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Hey guys -
> > > I'm working on a project and I ran into a slight hiccup.  I figured
> > I'd give
> > > a shout and see if any of you old school linux users had any
> > suggestions.
> > >
> > > I need some config files from mid 1990's linux distros.  I'm doing
> > some
> > > comparative analysis of config files (don't ask) but I'm running short
> > on
> > > resources for some of the ancient distros.  Does anyone know of a good
> >
> > > resource on the web where I could find some?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Brad
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> -Rob
>
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