On Mon May 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM BST, Bret Busby wrote:
What is Potato? Is that about 3.0, or 3.1?
It was my first Debian version: release in August 2000.
Would it still be supported with security patches?
No, security supported stopped for Potato 22 years ago.
If not, would it not be unsafe to use to connect to the Internet?
Yes.
If you want to connect a machine that old to the Internet today, I
suspect it might be possible to build a modern kernel that will run on
it (which would be a starting point) but it would take a lot of fine
tuning of the build configuration.
It would be very difficult to even fetch the modern kernel sources on
that machine. I'm fairly sure git would require more RAM than that.
You'd almost certainly have to build the kernel on another machine and
copy the result over, probably as an iterative process.
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