Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older)

From	Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older)
Date	2024-09-15 12:10 +0200
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 7:59 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 10:27:01PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote:
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> [...]
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> > Now for the main question: Why do you need ancient Debian?
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> Was in the original post: "This is to build some ancient software."
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> (I've been in a similar situation myself)

Just have to add a "me too". Often a piece of software that hasn't
been maintained for 20 years or so fails to compile, or the support
scripts are using tools no longer available etc. It's way easier to
FIRST make it work on the environment it was designed for, and then
gradually fix whatever prevents it from being built with modern tools.

I feel that this is one of the key strengths using free software.
While you can probably easily find old CDs with Windows 2000, and MAY
find old CDs with the popular development tools at the time, it may be
very difficult getting it to run legally (if you care) and just pray
that you don't need a non-existing dongle.

I'm very happy that debian offers even really ancient versions.

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Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-14 17:10 +0200
  Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-14 17:20 +0200
    Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2024-09-14 17:30 +0200
      Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-14 17:40 +0200
    Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Michael Kjörling <c9bc136c6063@ewoof.net> - 2024-09-14 17:40 +0200
      Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2024-09-14 18:40 +0200
        Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2024-09-14 23:00 +0200
          Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-09-15 08:00 +0200
            Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older) Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2024-09-15 12:10 +0200

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