Are any of these Linuxes worth posting?

SomeGuy

I know there were a number of "propriety" Linux distributions that included some closed source bits. There are a few early ones already on Winworld.

Someone recently uploaded a few more of these kinds of Linux distributions, but I'm not familiar enough with them to know if they are worth posting.

Is there anything in or about these that might make them worth adding here? Anything of any historic significance about them? I'm also not sure exactly when all of these were released.

SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional Boxed Retail
SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional Boxed Retail
SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional Boxed Retail
Turbolinux 7.0 Workstation
Turbolinux 6.0 Boxed Retail
Mandrake Linux 7.0
Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4
RedHat Linux 8 Professional Retail
Thiz Linux 6.0 OEM
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty-Fawn Ultimate Edition
Mandrake Linux 9.0 Powerpack Edition
Linux Mandrake 6.5 For Windows

Also, Solaris 9

stitch

I would be interested in the Mandrake's 9.0 and below as I couldn't find a mirror online that had it available.

I would recommend using that as the guideline. Maybe I can put some quick hack in to direct users to online mirrors for aged goods when available.

Among those who would also probably be hard to find would be RedHat 8, Caldera OpenLinux, and maybe Turbolinux?

thiekus

Red Hat 6.2 through 9.0 still archived by Red Hat here, while missing version 6.1 and below.

calvinb

Caldera's Linux has a DE with an interesting history: http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp ... pen-linux/

SomeGuy

These size of most of these is huge though (1-4GB). I'll probably need to break some of those up with individual CDs or something.

I'd never even hear of Thiz Linux before.

TCPMeta

I don't think Thiz Linux isn't that old enough. I think that came out in the mid 2000s.

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SomeGuy wrote:

Mandrake Linux 7.0
RedHat Linux 8 Professional Retail
Solaris 9

YES! I've been looking for an old Mandrake. RH8 Looks cool too.

SomeGuy

Added Mandrake 9.0 https://winworldpc.com/product/mandrake ... -powerpack

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SomeGuy wrote:

Added Mandrake 9.0 https://winworldpc.com/product/mandrake ... -powerpack

Thanks. The only other one that really interests me is RedHat. I do remember the early days of Linux, it's come a really long way.