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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."
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!
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Does anyone know where I can find a full distribution that comes with either a 1.2 or 1.3 kernel?
I can't get to the ftp.slackware.com site from work, but I do know that on some of the public mirrors they go as far back as slack 3.3 (with a 2.0.x kernel) I think on the main slack site, you can get even further back.
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But I do have some early libc6 stuff. Actually, quite a bit of it. I thought about donating my old discs, but I'd rather burn a new distro for a new user.
Depending on when you started using Linux you have:
A huge stack of floppies of one distro. You used it, and it was good (early adopters)
About a billion Linux-Mall or Cheapbytes products (from their sampler packages. This is me)
A couple of iso's you burned yourself (the modern equivalent of the floppies) or a boxed distro (conspicuous consumption?)
Anyway, sorry, no help. I might have a RH 4.2 disk. Send email (remove second '@')
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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!
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I have that CD right on my wall. It's a clock now. Old distros are useful even if you're not going to install them. Sometimes they come on pretty CDs. Just go to www.klockit.com and get a $5 clock movement for that CD that's just too pretty to throw away.
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