[GRLUG] Any History Buffs around?

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 01:26:05PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> Have a dead machine from 2003, .. and it looks like the most
> important piece of information that we need from it is what distro
> was installed! The C++ application on it is having MAJOR problems
> compiling with a current kernel & libries, so we might try to
> recreate that environment just to start from a running system.
> 
> All I have gotten off it [and even that is now unavailable] is LILO,
> I *believe* I saw 2.6.24, .. but what distro would have been used in
> 2003? I seem to recall installing Debian, but that was a LOOOONNNGGG
> time ago <g>!

Did Debian use LILO in 2003?  I've been using Debian since 2002 and it
seems Debian has used GRUB that entire time.

> Has anyone ever tried to migrate a C++ application from that era to
> present day?

Er...not me.  :-\
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