Post AIwI0ZOKyffHKCDnhw by rudi@mastodon.sdf.org
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(DIR) Post #AIwGicELaHJKxkQKQq by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-04-29T10:41:10.868907Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #AIwI0ZOKyffHKCDnhw by rudi@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-04-29T10:55:20Z
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@Moon you might have to find torrents or go to college cs department websites. I know that there used to be a bunch of old distro isos on my Uni's site but I forgot the link
(DIR) Post #AIwI4JNITAgOo9WFIO by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-04-29T10:56:18.452007Z
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@rudi ohhh university mirrors, that is a good idea, thank you.
(DIR) Post #AIwIUOWlvy3UJnO93o by slash@cdrom.tokyo
2022-04-29T10:59:40.773105Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #AIwIUPGrAcv0ciwwtM by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-04-29T11:01:00.277460Z
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@slash years ago I gave away my SGI box because I couldn't find irix ISOs! Wow, thank you.
(DIR) Post #AIwLxkm0bTlfZZCqX2 by toiletpaper@shitposter.club
2022-04-29T11:39:57.168096Z
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I recently had to resurrect an i386 machine to use as a headless backup server for a buddy, and thankfully I found a few distros that still had images with 32b support avail, albeit not lts whatsoever. but hey, got it working. so that's good. I hope that 32b distros continue to exist for a long time to come because there's tonnes of old hw out there that can have useful applications in spite of being basically antiques at this point.
(DIR) Post #AIwMoUCyvEj5Xry2vQ by skells@qoto.org
2022-04-29T11:49:27Z
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@Moon @slash linux newb here but isn't redhat gigacucked by glowies
(DIR) Post #AIwNmC9RBfYSuumUMq by vixn@noagendasocial.com
2022-04-29T12:00:16Z
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@Moon was redhat better than cent?
(DIR) Post #AIwPslwxCY4RafCpuq by slash@cdrom.tokyo
2022-04-29T12:15:14.688160Z
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@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.
(DIR) Post #AIwPsmggSWeNsUbMC8 by skells@qoto.org
2022-04-29T12:23:50Z
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@slash @Moon to rephrase, I'd read sometime ago that RedHat as an institution appeared to be slipping very intelligent backdoors into a lot of Linux code, and wondered what the appeal of RedHat isi for sure get the motivation of using older software, tried to get Windows 7 on my new rig but have struggled to find a functional install disc I can trust
(DIR) Post #AIwRfaSMp1ES5Wjvfs by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-04-29T12:43:53.020309Z
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@vixn at the time, centos did not exist yet.
(DIR) Post #AIwRo1hLQEyCtQlm88 by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-04-29T12:45:25.036954Z
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@skells @slash Basically what I want to test is, how fast it runs on an emulated 486. I'm trying to mimic what I used to run back in the day to see if I've got rose-tinted glasses over my eyes for the old days.
(DIR) Post #AIwRpMQXpzqhTMY1y4 by rudi@mastodon.sdf.org
2022-04-29T11:37:39Z
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@Moon no prob! I wish I could remember my old link, I managed the mirror for my uni and was careful not to delete any ISOs because for some projects people wanted insecure/out of date Software. Unfortunately I controlled it via NFS and not the Web URL 😅 another coworker of mine managed all front facing aspects of https://www.cs.sunyit.edu and I managed almost all of the backend
(DIR) Post #AIwSAQzo2w3biv5dFQ by sj_zero@social.fbxl.net
2022-04-29T12:49:28.044903Z
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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.
(DIR) Post #AIwSLb7WkBPKJG1ZM8 by slash@cdrom.tokyo
2022-04-29T12:51:18.249486Z
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@Moon @skells the nostalgia will have a head start just because the TURBO BUTTON was an actual thing that’s gonna influence it.
(DIR) Post #AIwSOuDIDGpKOVIZIu by Moon@shitposter.club
2022-04-29T12:52:04.922397Z
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@sj_zero @slash @skells I didn't use a real Unix until 2002, then used IBM AIX.
(DIR) Post #AIwVt5uHbM2jD7UecC by slash@cdrom.tokyo
2022-04-29T12:56:51.575212Z
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@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.