On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 7:59 AM <to...@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. I'm very happy that debian offers even really ancient versions.
