Hi.
I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but the stats from lq iso are not just confusing, they simply can't be correct.

Most dowloaded over last 30 days:

OpenSolaris 2009.06 (130585)
Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) (26224)
Linux XP 2006 SR2 (6556)
Fedora 11 (3981)
Damn Small Linux 4.4.10 (2396)
Debian 3.0r2 (woody) (1549)
Ubuntu 9.10 (1427)
Gentoo Linux 10.0 (1332)
openSUSE 11.1 (1319)
Fedora 8 (1157)
Linpus Linux Live 9.2 (1087)
Linpus Linux 9.6 (991)
PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008 (984)
KNOPPIX 6.0 (943)
MandrakeMove 9.2 (893)

http://iso.linuxquestions.org/

OpenSolaris: ... nr1?

RH9: nr2? Should be removed (not just a warning while still keeping all mirrors). This belongs in a museum.

Debian: Woody? that's 3 versions behind and unsupported.

...

Am I missing something obvious?

true, at this rate, evreyone would be running *nix.
some classes strictly require RHL.

That would be RHEL, centos or even fedora.

RH9 doesn't even work on modern hardware.
Do they require useless and outdated Debian 3.0 software as well?

even so, it should not be removed because if people want it, why take it away?

Because people shouldn't be installing such old and unsupported software now. Surely there are many security holes in such software that haven't been fixed? If people have older systems already installed and they're maintaining them, obviously that's fine. However, I don't really see the point in installing unsupported software from scratch if there's newer, software available.

A couple comments:

* The high OpenSolaris 2009.06 download number is likely to result of a broken bot or something similar. I'll look into it.

* Keep in mind that LQ ISO simply links to official mirrors and does not host any downloads. Our current policy is to link to any distro version that remains actively archived on the official mirrors.

Thanks for the feedback.

--jeremy

I've been thinking of installing and old(er) linux for the simple reason that my first experience with linux (and last until a few months ago) was 8 or 9 years ago and I remember being traumatized by it and would now like a little revenge and a use for some ancient hardware I can't bring myself to throw away since it still boots despite total neglect for GKHL. Or really just to force myself to learn some of the things that I don't HAVE to know in order to simply run linux. Also my favorite classes when I was in school were the ones that had pretty nice dedicated labs full of hardware the school would have otherwise scrapped. You learned A LOT just to get something to behave and you weren't in trouble if you broke something. Just had to stay late and fix it!