Old Distributions?

rsd writes: "I have been searching the web for a few days looking for old rpm based distributions ISOs for a study with libc5. All I could find so far is some loose packages, but not a downloadable ISO image. For RedHat 4.2 and older, Conectiva Linux 1.0, ... it is impossible to find. So I ask myself is there a centralized place taking care of this, for public use and even preservation of the Linux History and evolution? We have lots of places with ISO images, like linuxiso, however these sites just keep with recent distributions."

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I'll get to rpm distros

[wmulvihillDxR]

But first, I do know that Linux history is preserved at least for the kernel. Linus has every single kernel every made on the kernel.org site. Not that having these kernels solves your original problem, but at least you have the kernels.

Before anyone else makes this mistake, I'd like to say, don't go by a directory listing of ftp.redhat.com. I went to it and looked and sure enough, there were directories for RH 1.0-RH 4.1 and I thought, "Boy this guy is dumb." There are right there on redhat's site. But then I went all the way down to the iso directory for RH 4.1 and sure enough, there was nothing there. Ack! So this guy does have a beef. You might try checking one of the ftp.redhat.com mirrors that has been around for awhile (I don't have examples) but maybe they didn't rsync --delete!