Re: [opensuse] Old SuSE archives

On September 10, 2009, Chuck Payne wrote:

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:32 PM, David Haller wrote:

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On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On Thursday, 2009-09-10 at 12:19 -0400, Mike wrote:

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I'm trying to restore an old machine and would like to put  an early SuSE on it.  Is there a source to download the early packages.  I have a copy of 4.2 on a Walnut Creek CD and am looking for something older.

You'll be hard pressed to find much. ISTR 4.1 was the first S.u.S.E version. I think, there's some guys on the german list (opensuse-de) that still have images. You can write there in english (you should mention the reason though), or I could ask for you there.

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Interestingly, SuSE is not interested in preserving its own history. But I believe the gwdg ftp server keeps some.

Well, I think they're interested. Just not _that_ much. And they know, there's people out there, that are and keep copies ;)

-dnh, having 5.3 and newer CDs/DVDs (should test & copy the old ones,    some of these days ;) ... and still running a 6.2 (of sorts ;)

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4.2 what the first offical release.

In 1996, the first "real" distribution provided by the company was published under the name S.u.S.E Linux 4.2. The version number chosen has caused much discussion: it should have been just a version 1.1, but above all it was the beginning of a new distribution. As version 1.1 was finally rejected, the number 4.2 was rather considered, and is an intentional reference to the reply of the "Big Question about Life, the Universe and the Rest" of the H2G2 science fiction novels series of the English writer Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The number of the first version of YaST, 0.42, was also drawn from the same source.

Well that means I have been with SuSE from the beginning. I have 4.2 from Wallnut Creek and the boxsets for 6.0, 6.2, 6.3, 7.0, 7.1, 7.3, 8.1, 9.3. My local retailer stoipped carrying Suse after 9.3 so I've been downloading them since then. -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org