On 3/19/2023 2:17 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
On 3/18/23 12:30, Karma wrote:
Does this run on modern machines:
<https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/warty/>
Just a thought because it is small and probably very fast as well.
It might work ok but it lacks all the security updates that even Canonical has bothered to make. Probably under VirtualBox or other
emulation system that has all the drivers needed in the machine VB is being run on. If you could get to work on bare metal you would still
need to keep it off the net as those security updates are missing.
And Canonical does not do updates on the really old stuff.
It you want a fast-running system on modern hardware you
might want to look at the Puppy line of systems. I find my non-Ubuntu system quite fast and it is only a few years old plus I get all the
upgrades and security patches in a reasonable amount of tiem,
bliss - on the ever-faithful Dell Latitude E7450, PCLinuxOS 2023
KDE Plasma 5.27.3 Kernel Version: 6.2.6-pclos1 (64-bit)
KDE Frameworks 5.104.0 - Qt Version: 5.15.6
Graphics : X11 - Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 5500
15.5 GiB of RAM CPU 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-5600U CPU @ 2.60GHz
Actually 2 real cores and 2 virtual cores.
Fatdog (Puppy) is a 64-bit version using a slightly more
modern kernel. Traditional Puppy, the kernel is perfect for
old hardware, but on newer hardware, practically no drivers
at all work in it with the newer hardware. There are software
fallbacks, so it might still run, but traditional Puppy is
hardly focused on new hardware. The Fatdog one comes closer
to being useful.
Since Puppy uses XVesa, when everything is converted to Wayland
(and they discard XWayland because of designer ego),
Puppy will be left in the dust (in a sense).
As for the general topic of "do old things boot", some
items don't do well at all. My older Knoppix media
won't boot, and it doesn't get far enough along to be
worried about drivers.
One way to experiment, is install the item on an older
machine, then move the disk drive to a newer machine
and try to boot the installation. You can also do the
inverse of that - on a 440BX-era motherboard, the BIOS
does not understand the concept of "DVD" nor of "USB",
so you install on a hard drive, using a newer machine,
then move the drive backwards in time by connecting
to the 440BX. That's how I ran a few things on an older
machine. The 440BX BIOS doesn't even understand "SATA",
and installing a SATA card is a waste of time (ignored
by BIOS). You need a SATA to IDE adapter for such
experiments (BIOS only "accepts IDE cables").
*******
The different versions of VirtualBox, don't have exactly
the same support. A newer VirtualBox for example,
would not really support Win98. Then, the next VirtualBox
along, doesn't support WinXP. By the time you get to the
current one, the OS support is so poor, it's no longer
worthwhile virtualizing stuff. Just a warning of a
possible outcome. There are other hosting softwares,
like QEMU KVM which may work better. Their support policy
could be quite different than the commercial ones.
To be able to operate this pig, I resorted to a serial mouse
and passthru serial port. That gave me a "tame mouse" to use
to operate the screen in there. My regular mouse was a random
number generator in there. I paid $5 for that serial mouse, out of
a "barrel of surplus mice", part of me said "why are you buying
this crap?" but the other part of me said "You'll see...".
It's more than paid back the $5, in tasks like this.
[Picture]
https://i.postimg.cc/4NHnndM6/warty.gif
Paul
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