Fwd: Re: : : Becoming a Linux Hacker?

Jean-Francois Brousseau (krapht@hbe.ca)
Wed, 13 Oct 1999 15:37:28 -0500


I could host it on my server!

PIII 450, used mostly for dev and RC5 cracking, and Apache running. It might not be as easy to find
as other servers with Linux-related names, but I have enough space on my system for that!

Mail me if you're interested : krapht@hbe.ca

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 05:59:51PM -0700, Ming Lei wrote:
>
> > > > > I am also the one who is interested in compiling old kernel, like
> > > > > v0.0.1 or v1.0, and booting it. However, I had difficulties to
> > > > > compile those acient kernels, for example, in link stage, a lot of
> > > > I remember Eric Youngdale posting saying he'd updated 1.0.9 to work
> > > > with modern compilers and C libraries. 0.0.1 is a lost hope; you need
> > > > minix and gcc 1.x as I remember.
> > > I have an old LST 1.8 distribution on CD here, containing a full Linux
> > > distribution with kernel 1.0.9, gcc of the same age, XFree 2.something
> > > and a load of other tools. Runs fine in VMWare :-)
> > > If anyone wants those bits I can put them up my FTP server. most of the
> > > utilities are just a couple MB... the whole distribution is a boggling
> > > 120MB (or something) in size (wow!!). :-)
> > Could you put that CD on your FTP server, and maybe as well as some linux
> > public sites so if someone needs to install old version of Linux, he can
> > still get it? Let linux-kernel email list know and cc to me also. Thank
> > you very much for helping.
>
> I asked ftpadmin@kernel.org for space. I had a talk with our dorm admins
> and they told me they wouldn't like a horde of people downloading 100MB out
> of our network ;) so could you please suggest a few other sites where I
> could ask for space?
>
> btw, I forgot almost, this distro is in German - they've even
> internationalized all kernel messages. But that shouldn't be too much of a
> problem :)
>
>
> --
> _ciao, Jens_______________________________ http://www.pinguin.conetix.de
>
> Windows NT indeed has very low Total Cost of Ownership. Trouble is,
> Microsoft _owns_ Windows NT. You just licensed it.
>
>
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