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Blast from the past (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/linux@programming.dev

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Spotted this guy after going through an old box of CDs.

Crazy that this was only 6 years ago

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[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And the cool thing is: not only were you able to install this 6 years ago, you were able to install it 16 years as well!

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

2009 was only 6 years ago, so I'm not sure what 1999 has to do with it :P

No joke -- Debian is a treasure trove of archival releases. Ask any other distro if they still have stable tarballs from kernel v2, and the answer will simply be "no".

https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/