Feature changed by: Marguerite Su (MargueriteSu) Feature #312859, revision 5 Title: Publicize Archives of Historical SuSE Releases - openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed + openSUSE Infrastructure: Done Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Anomyous Anomyous (jcat123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: One can use file watcher and find Live Evauation ISOs for versions of SuSE/SUSE back to 8.0. All releases before 8.0 were deleted from the FTP servers in 2005 and 2007. There should be a special directory on the openSUSE file server where these ISO images of these historical releases' Live Filesystems can be downloaded. Of course, ensure these are marked "For Historical Purposes Only" and recommend downloading a recent release. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: SLE\openSUSE has a rich and far reaching history compared to other distributions. SuSE is one of the few surviving distros that go back into the 1990's. Each release of SUSE is a snapshot of what it was like to use Linux at one time. Knowing what the software looked like in the early days helps us better appreciate the distribution and is quite interesting to tinker with. A historical artifact of all our lives before the 1990's was something physically tangible. Now it is digital data. Putting out an archive of the oldest days of SuSE Linux would allow us to peer into the history of openSUSE, SLE, the Linux community and its various projects, free software and the development of computer technology in general. Discussion: #1: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) (2011-11-17 14:15:30) Please also check http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mirrors#EOL_mirrors -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312859