[geeks] red hat linux version 1.0

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On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 02:23:47PM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
> When I finally got into RedHat's archive.download.redhat.com site, I
> found that the oldest they seem to have installable sets available for
> is 6.2, which, for RedHat, was one of their better releases.

I was involved with the predecessor of that, the beta version of 5 that
was released as 6.0.

As things often happen, the suit who signed us up for the project, got
a beta tester credit and a free boxed set. I found the bugs. The two I
remember is that both ssh sessions and NFS shares ran as root. No matter
what login you used, when you got a shell you were root on that machine.

The same with NFS shares. There were other NFS problems too. By the time
it was released as 6.0 they were fixed. :-)

However the point is not to find a useable ancient release of RedHat, it's
to see what they included in the original release. I'm not even sure if
I have anything it will run on, I wonder if I can do it using QEMMU.

Geoff.

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