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henkc

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Hi

I am trying to get some old software up and running. I have the recipe I used previously on various old distros (it's several 10s of thousands of lines of fortran, so line by line fiddling is not really an option).

I am pretty sure I managed to get it to run on Redhat 6.0 and definitely had it running on Mandrake 8.2. Unfortunately I can't find anywhere that archives distros this old.

Anyone able to help?

Henk
 
henkc said:
Hi

I am trying to get some old software up and running. I have the recipe I used previously on various old distros (it's several 10s of thousands of lines of fortran, so line by line fiddling is not really an option).

I am pretty sure I managed to get it to run on Redhat 6.0 and definitely had it running on Mandrake 8.2. Unfortunately I can't find anywhere that archives distros this old.

Anyone able to help?

Henk
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I'm sure I have Redhat 5 & 6 at home. Will let you know.
 
I have RH7.0 and Mandrake 7.2, Vector Linux 4.0 & 5.0 , Genoo 2005.0 and
Puppy linux (Linux Format magazine May 2000). Also FBSD 4.7

Can help you out if in Durban.
 
I also have a question about old Distros.. I think around 2000 I had redhat and that gnome came with a very different version of nautilus I think, was a little bloated but had lots of customization features and clean looking design...
 
think I gave an older RH away, it was good for removing Linux partitions in the win98 days
 
I still have Ubuntu 5 if you want it... from good 'ol 2005 still :eek:
 
I bought 'Linux for Dummies' a few years back and 3 CD's accompanied the book.
Red Hat Linux 7.0 (Guinness) Release Notes
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Dated 1999/2000

I should try that on my Core2duo MB and see how far it gets :)
 
henkc, what are the requirements of the software? Many of the older applications require libc5, so that cuts out most distros from the last several years.

I think Telkom probably hosts every version of mandrake/mandriva out there. There's a guy who works there who makes it sound like God himself wrote every line of code in it. Unless they got rid of him too.
 
koffiejunkie said:
henkc, what are the requirements of the software? Many of the older applications require libc5, so that cuts out most distros from the last several years.

I think Telkom probably hosts every version of mandrake/mandriva out there. There's a guy who works there who makes it sound like God himself wrote every line of code in it. Unless they got rid of him too.
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You can try the SAIX and IS ftp servers.... they tend to have a lot of outdated crap there.... and old distro's.....
 
Running an old distro on new hardware would be a nightmare imo.
Would think there's a method of taking that fortran recipe and converting it to say for e.g. python code.
 
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