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

David Liana dliana at frontiernet.net
Fri Jan 4 10:11:51 EST 2008


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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