What Is The Oldest Linux Installation CD You Have?

zeroquaranta · 09-03-2015, 03:32 AM

Hi,
I found this in an old box

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Not sure about the date, but should be sometime in the 90s..

Thomas

ASN5 · 09-03-2015, 03:54 AM

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Originally Posted by jeremy

Also, as an update to the original rules: The oldest still gets to pick any item out of the LQ Merchandise Store, but any older than my initial post will be upgraded to Contributing Member for one year (I'm hoping I'll find my original Yggdrasil CD and if I do I'll post it, but the date to beat will remain the one in my initial post).

--jeremy

Sweet!

thyrsus · 09-03-2015, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Gonzalo_VC

You are the champion, then!!!! ;-)

PS: I'll have to check my CDs. Original ones I think Caldera Linux 1.2 was my first one, along with Conectiva 5. I have CDs that came in some magazine. Then I have some recorded ones from ISO files or so...
Today I still have ~30 CDs but I tend to throw them away and keep only the newer version (in fact, these days, I only have the ISO files on an external HD) and perhaps some very old or, as I said, original/labelled fancy CDs or DVDs, like a Kubuntu 7.04 I got from the UK by mail, Debian 6 I got in an international Libre Software Forum, etc. ;-)

Xenix was a derivative of AT&T and BSD Unix code; I worked with it in 1983, before Linux was a twinkle in Linus's eye (nope, don't have media from then).

thyrsus · 09-03-2015, 05:35 AM

I believe there was an earlier Yggdrasil, but this is the first one I ever purchased.

aoncica · 09-03-2015, 06:13 AM

redhat 5.1

mab974 · 09-03-2015, 06:52 AM

Hi,

Slackware 96 V.3.1
with a huge book Slackware Linux from T. Parker.

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mtsoule · 09-03-2015, 07:09 AM

i know that this probably doesn't count, and I still have to find them. but, I have an UNOPENED copy of Lotus 123 for Unix System V somewhere... I hope I didn't throw it away!!

Mike

DesKelly · 09-03-2015, 07:52 AM

Sorry no CD and overwritten. The release consisted Of about 60 stiffies

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alvenice · 09-03-2015, 08:05 AM

Hi,
Yggdrasil Plug&Play linux: manual, 3,5" floppy and CD dated summer 1994
http://www.ma7.it/y1.jpg

lcafiero · 09-03-2015, 08:06 AM

Xubuntu 6.10 PowerPC version. I burned it myself and I found it while looking for some other media the other day.

Shawn255 · 09-03-2015, 08:46 AM

I am so Noob, I can not post an image here in LQ, as this is my first post.
Being quite new to Linux, my oldest Linux CD is Ubuntu 12.
Will post a pic asap--after this first post.

alvenice · 09-03-2015, 08:50 AM

Hi!
Yggdrasil Plug&Play linux: manual, 3.5" floppy and CD dating back to summer 1994

ghonchu · 09-03-2015, 09:17 AM

I purchased a SAMS publication book on "LINUX UNLEASHED" with a CDROM in 1995.
It has Slackware 2.2.0 on the CD. Donot know how to attach images.

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mostlyharmless · 09-03-2015, 09:31 AM

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Slackware 3.2.0 circa 1997, my first non-floppy disk install. Still have the book these came with too, 3rd Edition

ButterflyMelissa · 09-03-2015, 10:03 AM

Okay, I'l lnever win this (dont really wanna, it's just the fun that counts), but here are the fond old memories

The first one I tried, had NO clue what hit me...the PC had 128Mb memory and a GUI could not be installed...
That one was given to me, as a (then) ***dows user, actually being GIVEN an OS legally and "fur free" was a novelty...already outdated then I learned a lot from that one...before steping over to F8 core...

Thor