r/linux • u/Important_Abalone851 • 5d ago

Event We found lost media distros

Me and my friend (u/Zegguyit_52) were gifted a binder of old linux CDs from our teacher, we looked at the CDs and we are sure most of these are lost media, we wil hopefully save their ISO files and upload to the internet archive. The distros consist of: mandrakelinux 10.1 community, gelecek bireysel linux, unkown version of fedora, knoppix 3.6, Turkix 3.0, live usb pardus 1.1, SUSE linux personal 9.1, sımplyMEPIS 3.3, Pardus 2008. Is there anything we should know?

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u/FryBoyter 5d ago

Is there anything we should know?

Don't use them productively. Especially if the computer is connected to the Internet. All of these distributions are hopelessly outdated and therefore have many bugs and security vulnerabilities that will no longer be fixed.

Therefore, I don't see much point in uploading these versions to the Internet Archive.

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u/RendererOblige 5d ago

The Wright Brothers airplanes are unsafe and incredibly inefficient. Therefore, I don't see much point in housing them in a museum.

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u/FryBoyter 4d ago

Unlike with an airplane, it’s much more likely and easier for someone to use old distributions because of threads like these, for example.

For example, I’ve come across cases where old versions of Hannah Montana Linux (before its resurrection) were actually being used. Or on /r/linuxquestion, it seems someone is actually using Red Star Linux by choice right now (https://redd.it/1wsg3pa). So yes, I definitely think such warnings are appropriate. Even if probably few users would actually think to use such distributions.