Where one can find ancient Linux distribution installation images (ISO) such as RedHat Linux 5 (not RHEL), early versions of Mandrake Linux?
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ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/ has every released version of RedHat. ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ has every released version of Debian. Both have sources, binaries and installation floppy images but not isos.
http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ has all out-of-support releases of Ubuntu.
http://snapshot.debian.org/ has almost every package that went through Debian unstable since March 2005.
ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/ has a grabbag of old-ish releases.
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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For some REALLY old distributions see oldlinux.org. Their collection is far away for complete but on the other hand there seems to be couple of gems like Caldera 1.0 prerelease or SuSE Linux 1.0.
Many educational ftp sites do still host quite ancient releases, but a quick peek lead me only to Red Hat 7.3 (at ftp.funet.fi), so that may still be a bit recent for you necromancer ... :-)
Janne Pikkarainen
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I have found so far:
- ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/linux/distributions/ (RH 7.3)
- http://redhat.lsu.edu/ (RH 5.2 - this one rocks!)
el.pescado - нет войне
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Really, check the long-standing FTP sites. You can still get Slackware distributions from disturbingly long ago that way.
SysAdmin1138
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Red Hat Commercial Linux 2.1 (from 1995) can be found at http://cd.textfiles.com/infomagic/imagicldr199511/disk2/ .
john_e
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I have Mandrake 8.0 Traktopel on my website as of now, 6.1, 7.0, and 7.1 coming shortly; along with Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 and X11 and Console Utilities from TuCows Linux. I have only been able to get Traktopel working, and on the ancient VMware 3.x, so the others are untested.
https://sites.google.com/site/fedorafiles/linux-stuff/old-linux-distros
Have fun!
