Historic distros
ARTEFACTS AND RELICS
MIN SPECS: A REALLY OLD PC
T he Linux kernel was released score and 10 years ago, and to acknowledge this achievement we’ve compiled a selection of our favourite distros from yesteryear. These can’t be booted from the DVD, but have a look in the olddistros/ folder on the disc and try booting the ISOs in a virtual machine.
We really wouldn’t recommend using these aging distributions on real hardware, especially if it’s connected to the internet. What’s more, they’re unlikely to work on hardware that wasn’t invented at the time of their release, but of course we can’t stop you from trying. None of these distros support booting from a USB stick, but you never know, it might be possible with Unetbootin or such.