On Tue, May 06, 2025 at 09:41:05AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > 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.
Hm. At this stage, the answer will very much depend on what "connect to the Internet" actually _means_. Until you haven't at least a rough idea of this, you shouldn't be doing it. > 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. ...and no, I guess the kernel is the least of our problem here. Cheers -- t
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