Re: Old Computers

[Gary Dale <garydale@torfree.net>]

On 02/06/15 12:49 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 June 2015 17:37:01 Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-06-02 at 16:07 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > But there's always vintage operating systems for vintage computers :)
> > > I thought of DSL.  But it needs an i486. :-(
> > > http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/
> > > http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=damnsmall
> > I was thinking more along the lines of really old Debian releases,
> > something that would be contemporary with the hardware.
> In view of the kernel problem, you are obviously right.  But in general, I
> would rather use something that is security updated.  So I was trying to
> think of other possibilities.
>
> Lisi
On the other hand, the old releases were updated for all the security 
problems known at the time. They may well be immune to newer issues 
introduced after the release became unsupported and there may be few 
people trying attacks that haven't worked on atypical computers in over 
a decade.