Re: Really ancient debian images? (potato or older)
On Sun 15 Sep 2024 at 12:08:29 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 7:59 AM <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 10:27:01PM +0200, Christian Groessler wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Now for the main question: Why do you need ancient Debian?
> >
> > Was in the original post: "This is to build some ancient software."
> >
> > (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.
Or that you have the dongle, but now have to find a parallel port
to plug it into.
> I'm very happy that debian offers even really ancient versions.
Cheers,
David.
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