Question for Linux folks...

[Twister]

Hi There,
I'm cleaning up my place and I found an old box of "open linux 2.3" made by caldera. There is a manual cds etc........
I don't know much about linux, i download umbuntu, played with it a bit and that was it.

Is this open linux, something outdated? I'm trying to clean the place up, so unless this has some value its going. Does this compare to like old dos disks ?

Thanks

 

[canucklehead]

It is outdated... unless u have an older machine to put it on. There are tons of flavours of linux online for download.

 

[truely-appalled]

Caldera Open Linux 2.3 is 1999 vintage.

There is no reason to not use modern Linux distributions with old hardware.

 

[Radio_Shack]

Same thing happened to me the other day. Was cleaning up and found a copy of Windows 1.0 on 5.25" floppies in mint condition. This gotta be a collectors item now. It was under a bagel with green crap growing on it but they don't seem to have been damaged by the incident. I remember this bagel very clearly back in around 1986 or so.. Brings back nice memories.

anyways..cheers

 

[xix]

install it

Same thing happened to me the other day. Was cleaning up and found a copy of Windows 1.0 on 5.25" floppies in mint condition. This gotta be a collectors item now. It was under a bagel with green crap growing on it but they don't seem to have been damaged by the incident. I remember this bagel very clearly back in around 1986 or so.. Brings back nice memories.

anyways..cheers

Copy all disk to computer/CD burn
try installing it on a recent computer.

I bet it will fly once you turn off USB on the motherboard.

 

[Radio_Shack]

Copy all disk to computer/CD burn
try installing it on a recent computer.

I bet it will fly once you turn off USB on the motherboard.

Ya, wish I could find a 5.25" floppy drive. I think there may be one under the pizza box, hang on..

 

[IggyP]

It can work. I run Solaris/Unix but have worked with many versions of Linux In your bios turn off a lot of your more modern advanced features... firewire, usb, AGP/PCI accelerations, dynamic memory allocations ect ect. Copy all the software over to the hard drive (if you have a spare partition this can be even easier and you can run windows as well on a primary partition. Run through the install and then do an update to the latest patches... Some things to consider if you really want to do this. Advanced modern video cards will be an issue. Sata drives will be an issue as well. Also you can have a look through some news groups on google and see if anyone is asking similar questions. It is a lot of work yes but at the end you may prefer Linux to windows as it is quite stable once you know your way around.

 

[WoodPeckr]

.....at the end you may prefer Linux to windows as it is quite stable once you know your way around.

Linux is free and very stable. These are the main reasons I like it.
There are plenty of distros out to try. Since Dell went with Ubuntu I did also and found it easy to learn. On the internet I can do everything that XP does now. The best way to learn is do a 'dual boot setup' so you always have Windows for a backup when needed while you are learning linux.
With most linux distros you can run them off the CD you burned after downloading the distro you selected to sample. It runs a bit slower this way but this way you can give it a test drive to see how you like it before installing linux on your PC.