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Historic Linux File Archive Created
jemagid writes "Ibiblio (nee metalab, nee sunsite)
has rummaged through all the old CDs and old
FTP archives we could find, to put together a
beautiful picture of the early days of the Linux community: Historic
Linux. The files include snapshots of
the early Linux archives including sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu, and early distributions such as MCC (Manchester Computing
Center) and SLS (Softlanding Linux Systems), which were some of the first attempts to make Linux easy to install and use. The early RedHat releases are also included, as is early Suse, Debian, Slackware,
and Blade. The early distributions
ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be
fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware."
The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware.
I certainly hope no one intends on putting these old versions on the net lest they become a w4r3z server or DDoS drone..
Trolling is a art,
I remember trying to install from those same SLS diskette images downloaded from Rusty 'n Edie's at 9600 baud. It was not a pretty picture.
Roving Web-Teleoperated Robot
I can't wait to see how Darl contributed his own special magic to Linux back in the day...
NOT!!!
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
You know, it's always wonderful to see this kind of effort going into preserving some of the history of our technological society.
It was great to browse through some of these pages and see how our community has changed. As a recent convert to Linux (Mandrake), it's very interesting to see how distributions have changed over the years.
Great job!
1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d t0 g37 l41d Capitalization really works: i helped my uncle jack off a horse
Ummmm, no,
Let it go.
Because SCO owns that file archive, or at least the OS that runs it.
unfortunately, this troll is worthless. SCO claims ownership of Linux code that includes SMP (in fact, they only can claim that code following 2.4.somethingorother is actually not GPL'd).
If you are going to troll, at least be smart about it.
I don't have to keep my old slackware install disks around anymore.
Countdown to the Linus backup quote: 3, 2, 1, go.
Remember that one? It eventually became Red Hat. Seriously.
unfortunately, this troll is worthless
I'd say the same about SCO's claims in general.
Modern distros on old hardware still work - I've got a 486sx33 laptop with 4mb ram (Toshiba Satellite 1910) that had Slack 7.0 and 7.1 on it. I upped the ram to 12mb and it now is a fairly useful machine with Slack 8.1 on it.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Slackware 3.1 is there to be found. That must be the second version of Slackware I installed. In that time I have a 25 MHz 486 with 8 MB of RAM, which was pretty fast considering the specs (I also had a 80 MHz AMD 486). Those were the days... Well I must say I'm glad we moved on :-)
-- Cheers!
... would be to put something new on it, something the designers of the time would never have concieved. Like the hacking community around the atari 2600 or colecovision, or getting the C64 internet ready with its own ip stack. Make it do something it wasn't meant to do.
Running a 10 year old linux on a 10 year old computer is just as interesting as running DOS or Win3.0 on it, though only half as useful. (Mod me down if you must, but linux was still very much a toy for comp sci students back then)
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
it's just like what we have now...except with no security fixes, lots of bugs, and sploits galore
but its a complete waste of time.
I actually have a 6 CD set from Yggdrasilof the 'Linux Internet Archives Winter 1996'. That's about the time when things were starting to become usable by mere mortals.
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years and I'm happy to say, I finally won out - Elwood P. Dowd
The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM"
Damn! Time to upgrade again!
SCO claims ownership of Linux code that includes SMP
No, actually. SCO reps have said in interviews that the alleged infringing code goes back to 2.0, and possibly earlier.
I don't imagine there are many warez servers with 2MB RAM and 100MB free HD space... Besides that, I would think that as many versions as the underlying libraries have gone through that current cracking tools wouldn't know what to do with something so outdated.
Maybe you should create an archive of old Linux cracking tools just to even the playing field?
before ls had color?!?! ;)
no comment
...in 10 or 15 years
Yeah, that's a great idea, I'll resurrect an old 386 with a 11 year old linux distribution, put it on the net, and watch all 11 years of security holes get exploited! yay!
I don't recommend that anyone put any of those distro's on a network without a pretty restrictive firewall, but then again, I'm one of those idiots that run a crap load of boxen at home with no firewalls at all. Heck, my passwords are 3-5 characters, that should be secure enough!
The real value of this is to have an archive of the entire development history and community. Out there in the open for all to see. Right there in front of God and everyone. It will help protect Linux from future SCO's.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
So RedHat has always been ugly! [grin]
Aych tea tea pea colon slash slash slash dot dot org slash
About redhatsociety.org
New year Resolution: Don't change sig this year
If you run any of these old distros on a system connected to the Internet, PATCH IT! Or yank it off the net. Some of these distros made swiss cheese jealous.
Now, if you get a contract with realdoll, let us know!
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irrelevant. They released Linux kernel code under the GPL until Linux 2.4.x something. Whether they like it or not, they have agreed that anything prior to that will remain under the GPL.
Don't mess with one of these old distributions. Seriously... things were broken in the old days, and often you had a bear of a time even figuring out what was wrong.
:-)
/bin/sh grrr...).
And good luck getting any answers!
If you want to go through the pain of this for HISTORICAL value... do so if you really really want to. Just don't put it on the net, ok?
If the intent is to squeeze some practical value out of an old system, then ignore these old distros and get something made for the job. One of the "Linux on a floppy" or "peanut" Linux distros would do nicely.
A really fun exercise would be "porting" all of today's "modern" Bash scripts to run on an embedded or stripped-down system.. nothing works because everyone uses the newer Bash coding styles (while still specifying the script as
A system built around BusyBox and dietlibc is pretty minimal. Just expect to learn a lot of the "old" command switches, and other workarounds...
ah, those were the days. 13 3.5" floppies painstakingly downloaded and dd'd onto floppies with and AIX box.
...but to really remember stuff, ya gotta go with those mirror-image tattoos.
Does anyone know where to find a comprehensive archive of Yggdrasil distributions?
you're forgetting that SCO's attourney Mark Heise also now claim the GPL is "invalid". So they in fact do threaten earlier Linux distros with their PR campaign at least.
Of course you'd have to apply security patches that would take you up to 2.4.22. ;-)
Quack, quack.
fp
While I was there, Microsoft bunged a MASSIVE load of cash to Manchester computing centre.
:-(
Sad really, they ripped out a load of perfectly good sun workstations in my department and put in (then-new) windows nt 4.0 workstation boxes. Nothing worked right after that, but at least MCC got to employ 3x its former staff.
I wondered why MS targeted MCC so completely (it wasn't until years later they started targeting the Oxbridge crowd) - they must have been out to kill GNU and Linux even then.
For those that don't know, there is Debian Archive of older versions. I think ibiblio has this beat with 0.91 Beta though (Jan 94).
-molo
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
heh Linus himself said in his interview that he knows the guy who coded most of the SMP stuff... IMO this whole SCO thing has scam written all over it. The uppers in the company are selling off stock like crazy. What does that say to you? Question: If someone does compile in SMP support because they're not using it, how does sco have anything against them?
Wow, and i wondered where they got all the stuff for stable/woddy...
The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware."
Hmm, I'm running 2.6 Rc1 right now on a 386 with 4mb ram...
why do I need an old distro to run linux on really slow or old hardware??
that has always been the magic of linux... pure scalability. and it takes 10 minutes to roll your own single floppy distro.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I downloaded my SLS Linux .99pl12 distribution at 2400 bps over two days. When the download finished, I found that most of my floppy images had checksum errors.
Fortunately, Jana publications imploded the next day, and started hemorrhaging CDs everywhere. I managed to get one and was up and running a few days later.
At about the same time, I had a borrowed Sun 3/110 runing SunOS 3.x. It was fun to play with the big old sun, but even then Linux seemed much faster and more modern. It didn't hurt that Linux was running on my 486DX-50, while the Sun was a 68020 of some kind.
http://saveie6.com/
Anyone else see these pictures on the servers? hehehe, I wonder when these were taken.
"Time is long and life is short, so begin to live while you still can." -EV
it's only invalid if they claim that all shrinkwrap licenses are. That would destroy most companies and their IP.
I doubt that MS's lawyers would stand for it. I doubt MS would stand for SCO even mentioning something of the sort after all the money they gave them.
Get real.
I mean Linus Pictures
"Time is long and life is short, so begin to live while you still can." -EV
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I still have copies of most of those in my cd case and diskette case :/ matter of fact, that 486 i have in my garage runs redhat 4 on it...
What is slashdot?
I doubt it. Such a historic archive, forming the input to a large cluster running a C parser or even a set of scripts based on "diff" and coupled to a rdbms, will be able to establish the origin of EVERY LINE OF CODE added to linux since day zero.
SCO's claims could be PROVED full of shit. We could account for EVERY LINE.
the day I decide to download gentoo, and you fucker post links to ibiblio.
thanks.
bastards.
I wonder if the want them. I know I have an August 1994 Walnut Creek CD set. I might even have my old Yggdrasil Plug and Play CD and floppy somewhere. God, but I've been playing with this stuff way too long. ;)
I found this awesome warez server, ftp://127.0.0.1/
Just because one is monoglot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hanglophone it doesn't mean one shouldn't try to write accents when necessary... nee doesn't mean anything, the French word meaning born being nee in the feminine, masculine ne.
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
By my rapid calculations, ibiblio.org now owes SCO some $756,000 and change.
Internet archiving giant Ibiblio reports that downloads of Redhat 1.0 are still outpacing downloads of both FreeBSD 4 and 5 combined.
Nee:
as in "We are the knights who say nee"
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Will any of the old distros run on my *NEW* apple I? Is there a software added backspace support?
:-D
Well that is a thought, it might be easier to trace SCO's "hidden" code that it claims is within Linux at the earlier versions, making it easier to trace fewer lines of source code. Then maybe we can remove all the code and SCO's lawsuit loses strength. Win or lose though, can't we just get all this SCO misery over with aready....
...in bed
I run Debian sarge on a 486sx25 Compaq Contura Aero, with 24MB of RAM (...which the thing isn't supposed to support) and an 810MB HDD. I used to use a 12MB 486sx33 Aero, with a ~250MB disk but it eventually died.
No, I don't run X - but emacs, perl, g++, vgaspect and kismet (with SVGATextMode) all work.
Pretend that something especially witty is here. Thanks.
Wouldn't they need a working TCP/IP stack for that?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Anyone know if there is a timeline anywhere containing the major distros (SLS, YGG, Deb, RH, Slack, etc) with a short list of their major features (ie Kernel ver, GCC ver, libC ver, etc)? If not, I might just have to D/L this stuff and whip one up. Let me know if anyone's interested.
Also, setting up a box with one of these distros might be a good, albeit outdated, intro into security for the curious.
I got a +5, Troll
Ahh, the fond memories of trying to find a SCSI card and CD disk drive that was supported. It ran on my third "real" machine, a 386-33 with 8 megs, may it RIP.
This one flew over my head...
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
I found my first Linux distro! I had forgotten what it was. It was xdenu. That got me into Slackware, later on.
Funny thing was, I copied fstab entries and LILO boot parameters *verbatim* off the 'Net (Gopher? Archie? I forget) and somehow... somehow... I got it up to a crosshatched screen with an "X" I could move around with my mouse. I figured it didn't work and scrapped it. Heh heh. That I got that far and didn't realize it still astounds me.
This is a very cool library for us oldies.
SYS 64738 NO CARRIER
irrelevant
:o)
:o)
Not to this discussion
You said that SCO is claiming ownership of SMP stuff (which is only true if you're talking about the IBM lawsuit). I was just pointing out that SCO has claimed (in interviews) that the alleged infringing code is for other, older, stuff.
They released Linux kernel code under the GPL until Linux 2.4.x something
That would be 2.4.13... and (while I agree with you about the GPL) I think that's irrelevant
Historic Linux? Hmmm.... what should we call it?
:-D
How about "Old Hat Linux" ?
-- ba-ching! --
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
That brought a smile to my face. Still using slackware on a notebook. Doesn't seem that long ago!
>Why would anyone willingly pay so much more money for so much less?
Because Apple doesn't use PC Shits parts?
Ah, the nestalgia, I'm almost tearing up. I remember when I was putting together the Tucows Linuxburg site (now Tucows Linux, can't speak for the quality now, haven't been with Tucows for three years) I used to visit Metalab several times a day. Before Freshmeat there was only one place to get your gear kiddies. Real men used Metalab! How I miss those days. I went through every directory on Metalab to build Linuxberg! What a great site!
-- 4 8 15 16 23 42
Wait a minute, I went looking through the archive and I didn't see this version of Linux that was derived from SCO Unix.
I thought Darl said that all operating systems were derived from SCO Unix? Since this is undoubtedly the case (because Darl McBride said so, and he is a smart man) then this archive is incredibly incomplete...
"God is dead!" - Nietzsche
"Nietzsche is dead!" - God
Finally the rpms I need to rebuild my redhat 4.2 distro.
Idol Star Astronomer
Actually, it's "We are the knights who say ni".
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>Just because one is monoglot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hanglophone it doesn't mean one shouldn't try to write accents when necessary... nee doesn't mean anything, the French word meaning born being nee in the feminine, masculine ne.
When a foreign word is anglicized, it typically loses its accents. See resume (the paper kind), for example. If you don't like how english operates in general, I humbly suggest you don't use it.
FYI: Nee is certainly a valid english word without the accents. Look it up before flaming next time. To REALLY bug you, noel requires no accent, also.
If you could be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you could be told what to say or think - BoC
that the date stamps are not preserved. I was looking at the old SLS distributions and all the date stamps say September 2003. You want to see 199[1234] for it to be really 3117 retro :)
v2sw7CUPhw5ln6pr5Pck4ma7u7LFw0m6g/l7Di5e6t5Ab6TH.
This is interesting, because I was just searching for some old BSD archives the other day. The reason was, some NZ orgs have been threatened with patent infringment on "a system that encrypts/decripts to a database on a separate server" -- immediately I thought of the old practice of using Rot13 in combination with usenet news (net.jokes) to obfuscate potentially offensive jokes -- well, they didn't say how strong the encryption had to be in order to qualify as "encryption."
The matter of concern was whether we could obtain evidence that this was being done prior to 1997 or so -- Rot13 was being used in conjunction with rn at least as early as 1983 -- I know, I used it -- but Google's net.jokes archives (a) don't go back that far, and (b) auto-decrypt the Rot13 jokes in its archives.
So, while it's not a matter of burning importance at the moment, it would have been nice if I could have grepped out the source for an historical version of rn from, say, 4.2 BSD, to definitively prove that this technology existed long before the patent claim this org was being hit with. As it was, they took my word for it at the org, and heck if we have to dig out some old 1600 BPI tape to prove the point, guess that's what we'll have to do.
This is why I think that the historical versions of Linux on the net is a really, really good thing, and wish that there were also 4.2 BSD, 4.3 BSD, Unix V6, SysIII and SysV historical sources available as well. Not only to invalidate SCO's claims, but a whole host of frivolous patent suits.
I think it might be time to go digging for the redhat installer version which had Redneck as a language choice. Go easter eggs!
"Y'all sure ya be wantin' to be overwritin' them thar partitions? Y'all won't be gittin' much data back off 'em after."
Interestingly, JE in the archives corresponds to Japanese -- it's replete with massive howtos on tweaking linux to work in a Japanese environment.
I've used these howtos up until recently -- the pace of change in the Japanese environment has been glacially slow (but is catching up rapidly).
Still, the Japanese software used by the major distros, such as RH and Mandrake, is substandard in comparison with what Microsoft and the commercial company Just Systems (included with the commercial portion of the RH distro in Japan) have to offer. In particular, the dictionaries for kanji-based words are insufficient -- words that pop up automatically in the commercial kanji programs aren't to be found in Linux yet!
Wonder if the Korean and Chinese language users experience the same frustrations. It's about time that Linux is brought up to speed in Asian language groups.
oh I remember back in the day I wrote applications for a 16Mhz 32-bit processor with 256KB of ram...... those were the days... sob sob...
oh wait that was a last fucking week... It's called a gameboy advanced....
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
I suppose the Edmund Hilary justification works for making a 386 run linux. But at this point, there is really no economic reason to use that old of hardware. At this point the hardware you can get for free is late model pentiums or early pentium IIs.
I suppose the other reason to use older hardware is because it is more stylish...but the 386s usually came in big big bulky boxes that weren't that attractive.
There is enough old computer hardware out there that its not really even that original to do something with it...it is not clever, in the same way that retro kitsch like Smurf Dolls are no longer clever.
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
i got teh "Connection Could Not Be Established" error ur ftp is teh sux
Who was the genius who came up with the name Yggdrasil? Did one of the developers have a 6-year-old crippled fetal-alcohol-syndrome dribbling drooling mess for a son?
Developer Father: Hmmm, I need to think of a name for this new Linux...
Barely Comatose Son: [suddenly and randomly] YGGDRASIL! [proceeds to drool copiously, spasm wildly]
Developer Father: Eureka! I shall name it 'Yggdrasil', in honor of my retarded son, Billy. Thanks, Billy!
Barely Comatose Son: GPPPPKKKLLLSKKSKKK SSSUUUUBUBULBLLLLL APBLE JOOZE
Developer Father: [proudly] *sniff* Yes, apple juice! Apple juice!
but does it have a shiny apple logo on it?
i mean, when i'm buying a machine, the first think i look for is aesthetics. i think to myself, "if i put this in my new beetle convertible (turbo, i might add) on the way home, will it detract from the styling of the car?" besides, no computer matches my studio as much as the g4 (those beige computers don't go with _anything_). when i'm not using my mac, i like to listen to music in itunes, and i don't know if amd can even use itunes. besides, steve jobs said that the new lickable interface is faster than windows because it is unix, and you can't just compare megahurts between pc's and powerpc's because it's a 64 bits computer (hence the power) but the non-power windows uses 32 bits only. if you do the math, you'll see that dollar for dollar, the g4 is much nicer looking and has a way cleaner interface than windows.
Strangely enough, there is a related rule:
When a heavy metal band makes up a name, umlauts
are allowed to be added to normally unaccented
words
-- All that's left of me, is slight insanity, whats on the right, I don't know. -- Bob Mould
That is an important achieviment. New users may download old distros and see how it works.
It is easier to understand a simple code than a giant code, with huge modifications. That might be usefull to users who want to create their own distros/OS and don't know exactly from where to start.
I started out running Linux in January of 1994, using MCC on my 25MHz 486SX with 4 MB of RAM. I think the entire distribution was about 7 or 8 1.44 MB floppies, which I painstakingly downloaded using bitftp. (Yes, I was on bitnet. If you don't know what bitnet was, be very grateful).
The machine was too underpowered to run X comfortably (although I did play around a bit with TinyX - made the machine swap like nobody's business); however, I hooked up my VT102 terminal in order to have separate vi and bash sessions. Just poking around trying to figure out what all of the Unix programs did was great fun. yacc? What the hell is that? The best part was gcc; my previous programming experience had been with Microsoft Quick C. Having a development system where my buggy programs didn't cause the entire system to crash was a beautiful thing.
Anyway, those were good times, and it's nice to see that these old distributions are still around.
I wouldn't call a 386 ancient...
Has anybody got my cdrom howto that was posted to the unix / linux forum on compuSpend during the yggdrasil era (it will be an embarrassing read), it even had my name on it (100025.1162 Dave Caroline) last time I checked years ago it had been downloaded 1200 times. Got a few emails asking for support (perhaps they coudn't read the howto!).
I've lost the original but I have got a copy that I downloaded in 1997.
So I don't know my original upload date to compuserve, does anybody know ?
It was a bastard to get going because the howto's were on the cd and the lilo string was not obvious.
Still got my cd's and an original Minix.
while(karma less_than enough_karma){karma++}
Many people (especialy developers like me) run the latest hardware with the latest distribution all-the-while having a virtual 386 emulator and making sure their application runs bug-free on the earlier versions of Linux and other operating systems. BOCHS is an example of a virtual 386 emulator, and I run RedHat 5.2 in BOCHS to make certain my code doesn't break anything. Yes, there are still many purposes for earlier Linux kernels; they are small footprint, not every computer runs at 1.6GHz and sucks 100 watts (Itanium2 comes to mind). Given the nature of Portable Desktop Assistant computing, many are based on the more efficient and simple 32bit 386 design and having lower power consumption with excessive uptime. I have a 486 100MHz PDA I've been building; it's homebrew, dimensions are 2" x 5" x 3", but it is more in-between a tablet computer and a PDA...but still...
trust me, you're better off.
of this database will be as a tool to trace the roots of all the code that is introduced into linux. This could be very instrumental in the IBM v. SCO case. This project should be expanded to show as much as possible the what has been added or removed from each version and who added or removed it. It may be tedious, but it definitely needs to be done in an age where linux is seeking wider commercial use.
> > We are the knights who say nee
> This one flew over my head...
Monty Python's The Holy Grail
Some supposedly scary knights that really only say "ni" (or nee, not sure how it's spelled) and people are supposed to run scared.
If it can gain a workable pronunciation without them, yes. But nee without accent becomes something like [ni:], which I not so humbly suggest isn't quite nice.
About Reference.com, it isn't enough of an authority.
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
And resume without the accent is pronounced "ree zoom" and cafe without the accent is pronounced "cayfe", yet somehow we all live. Get over yourself.
Monty Python's The Holy Grail
Thanks!
Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
umm ... don't they kind of screw up the time here? I mean, modern systemV code in ancient linux? I would be interested to see what features that didn't exist in unixware 10 years ago (fun fact - modern sco OSes are only Unix95 compliant) were 'copied' to the linux of that time ...
When a heavy metal band makes up a name, umlauts are allowed to be added to normally unaccented words
Actually, that's just cheesy hair bands, like Queensryche, Motley Crue, and Motorhead.
Like what I said? You might like my music
I know a *ahem* friend who downloaded all the H/C/P/V stuff they could find onto floppy disks using their first connection to the internet.
Now where did I^Hhe put them?
http://pcblues.com - Digits and Wood
I still have a 486slc Mitac notebook running
mini-linux. No CDROM, 80meg HD. Minilinux
was a 4diskette linux. It keeps running - I
dont have the heart to get rid of it.
"The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware.""
Just to point out even new versions of Linux can still run on a 386. The distro requirements may be more strict, but I have a 386DX with a 450M HDD(from a 486SX) running an LFS firewall. Ok so it has 16MB ram instead of 2-4MB, but still, you don't need an old version of Linux to run old hardware.
In my opinion this is one of the greatest benefits of Linux, and proves true the old saying "Hardware is only as obsolete as the software it runs"
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
Here is a sample of the CD-ROM's I have:
(04/27/1993 04:37a 617 ANNOUNCE)
SLS 1.02 is now available on tsx-11.mit.edu.
It contains 99p9 source and image, and
replacement boot disks a1.3 and a1.5.
The new boot disks just fix a few of
the custom install features. The network
daemons are now not started until/if a
NFS install is done. This should save
some memory. Also, doinstall now prompts
you to allow changing your IP address.
A small error message on the tape install
was also eliminated. Plus a number of
other small items have been cleaned up.
If anyone has any more suggestions for
improvements, let me know. However,
I will be away for the next 10 days,
starting Wed.
Peter
(04/13/1994 03:38p 531 README)
INSTALLATION DISKS DIRECTORY
This is the directory under which can
be found the disks needed to install
Slackware Linux 1.2.0. You will need
at least one bootkernel disk, and one
root-install disk. Look in the subdirectory
that corresponds with the size of your
boot media (1.2 meg or 1.44 meg). The
README files in the "bootdisks" and
"rootdisks" sub-directories will give
you more detailed information to help
you choose which disks are best suited
to your hardware.
---
Good luck!
Patrick Volkerding
volkerdi@ftp.cdrom.com
(07/20/1995 01:47p 2,833 README)
Red Hat Commercial Linux
Mother's Day + 0.1 Release 1995
The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright
(C) 1995 Red Hat Software and others.
Please see the individual copyright notices
in each source package for distribution
terms. The distribution terms of the
tools copyrighted by Red Hat Software are
as noted in the file COPYING.
Your Average Joe
Nice to know someone else out there is doing this :)
(i've had my little history archive since around 2001 or so Here
(http://intra-net1.svcc.edu/linux for the Goatse wary)
the last line in SLS 1.2's README is "good luck".
am i the only one here that finds disturbing when a software wishes good luck before the install begins ?
What ? Me, worry ?
or maybe some crack rocks for your pipe, dumbass.
Cos BSD is dead silly.
I still have my boxed set here, and I still have it installed on one of my 486's!! lol
:)
I didn't think it was that historic?? I also have some even older versions of RedHat and Slackware here.
Now I'm really feeling old... If those releases are historic, then I must be a dinosaur.
If you can, get the nice little blue cable that came with Dlink (the soft) connect your laptop RS232 (or Printer slot, depending on you cable) and use them as communication device.
Boot laptop with a floppy distro that includes a terminal and get busy on old literature on telnet and terminal emulation, and get a "server" on you big machine.
This is how "primitive" networks where done.
when you term from you laptop, you can "almost ftp" from one computer to the other.
Best regards, indeed, as I'll enjoy the sight of someone else enjoying 115200 bauds on Com1 for data transmission of large (Mo+) files 8)
It takes 40+ muscles to frown, but only four to extend your arm and bitchslap the motherfucker
BRU2000 is included in the Red Hat 5.0 directory, isn't this a commercial program included only for those who payd for the official cd?
Even worse, nee (accented or not - it is a legitimate Scrabble word) means "born". Unless the site was born again (nee is listed twice), it should only have one nee. Note that "born again Christians" probably have two (k)nees.
For the clueless, this supposed archive is another IBM plot to thwart SCO's intellectual property claims.
The SCO Information Minister
How can you tell if a topic is 'historical': You see replies modded up to +5 from users with ID# smaller than 50000. Heck, this is the first time I've noticed more than three replies from users with ID# smaller than 10000...
Karma? What's that again?
What a lie. Even 386SX33's with 4MB were fast enough with windoz 95. I even ran a Redhat with 4MB on a 386SX10 and managed to run everything I liked.
t/pix, I think (I own a legit copy, but
haven't seen it for a long time...
3.5" FD-based
Included devel sys [& maybe text proc'g?]
was offered to developers with T-3100
- upgraded to 4 MB RAM - at 50% Off
(Disc'd cost: about US$ 3,000 for the lot)
Didn't seem to be -quite- enough RAM...