On Sun 15 Sep 2024 at 12:08:29 (+0200), Anders Andersson wrote: > 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.
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.
