Pete Prodoehl 🍕Mar 3
Hey kids, in the olden days you bought (instead of “rented”) software and it came in a box with a disc and it was yours to use forever!
Show threadMichel Patrice

@rasterweb

And in the good old days, you bought magazines that came with a bonus disk containing a whole operating system along a bunch of softwares that were yours to use forever.

Mar 3 at 1:35pmWeb
Show threadMichel PatriceMar 3

@rasterweb

I have a pile of these disks on my bookshelves, my girlfriend thinks that it is a waste of space and asks why I’m keeping these. I don’t need these, I can download whatever I want.

I keep these because it is so cool.

Pieces of long gone era that I have known.

Show threadMorten Juhl-JohansenMar 3
@MichelPatrice @rasterweb I held on to my SuseLinux 9.1 Personal box set longer than anyone could have a use for...
Show threadWesDymMar 3

@MichelPatrice There's rarely any 'forever' when it comes to any software.

I actually have the very first Ubuntu release, and it definitely won't run on anything I have now.

Show threadMichel PatriceMar 3

@wesdym

I know, but you can still use Ubuntu now.

The very first? It is so cool. How old are you?

Show threadWesDymMar 3
@MichelPatrice I can use something CALLED Ubuntu, and I do. But it has little in common with the first one I used. Some nuggets of the kernel I'm sure are the same or very similar. But it would be impossible to patch the original enough to get it working on anything I'm using now. Canonical themselves have said so.
Show threadMichel PatriceMar 3

@wesdym

Yes, I understand all this.

But can find cool to have an old (now useless) Ubuntu disk from back in the days?

And can we just not tell my girlfriend that this pile of old disks is now useless?

Show threadWesDymMar 3

@MichelPatrice Sure. I still have it myself.

I wouldn't necessarily call it 'useless', either. You could in theory run it in VM, and that could be cool.