I wish you could easily still get very old Linux distro releases, a while back I was trying to find Redhat 7 (not ES7) and was unable.
@Moon https://archive.org/details/redhat-7.0_release archive has an awful lot on it, a while back I went hunting for Irix and found several versions there.
@slash years ago I gave away my SGI box because I couldn't find irix ISOs! Wow, thank you.
Depending on exactly how ambitious you are, I bet you that there are still unopened textbooks from that area that would have included a copy of redhead Linux 6 or 5 or something.
But yes, you do have Rose colored glasses on. Linux sucked back then.
But yes, you do have Rose colored glasses on. Linux sucked back then.
@Moon @skells @sj_zero My very first *nix was a copy of Knoppix somewhere between 2003-2004, and I didn’t resolve to learn under the hood until after 2004, installed gentoo from a stage 2 on my first built computer in 05 or so and didn’t get far with it because CLI is just not that friendly to a person like me.
@skells @Moon I mean in the context of this subject (preserving old versions of an OS) that would be a little like asking “what do you MEAN windows 98 has security vulnerabilities?” Based on business interests and past contracts, current ownership, Snowden leaks about unpatched zero days, probably. Does that matter for a decade old version that would naturally already have since-discovered exploit chains? Not really.