Old Distributions?

Posted by michael on Tuesday August 7, 2001 @04:15AM from the always-keep-backups dept.

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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Old RedHat Distros by poeman · 2001-08-07 06:39 · Score: 2, Interesting

I have several old RedHat distros on CD - I'd be willing to copy these if someone had a place to put the iso's at. I know I have 2.1, 3.3?, 4.2, and I believe I still have the mother's day release as well.

Even more interesting would be to see the old SLS releases. I remember when I worked for what seemed like a week to get something working under 0.97 pl4, and then Peter releases the first SLS release with 0.98

Oh the days when I was amazed by the fact that you could go to an ftp site, download something, and then not have to download it by kermit over a 2400 link!