Please find below a list of QEMU images of old and/or historically
interesting GNU/Linux distributions. Each image has an accompanying
README file, which explains how to use it.
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Debian 0.91beta (1994)
Debian is one of the oldest and most influential GNU/Linux distributions
still alive. Here we have the first public beta version of Debian ever
released, the 0.91beta. Most people will find it hard to believe that
the modern Ubuntu and Mint derived from this quite basic system :-)
[Debian 0.91beta image] [README]
FreakWare 0.4 (1999)
Freakware is a distribution based on Slackware 3.6 put together by Freaknet
Medialab in 1999 and released in 2017. The only version available is 0.4
(but it is reported as 0.5 in motd and as 0.6 in the Changelog!).
More information about Freakware are available in this article published on the webpage of the "Museo di Informatica Funzionante" Computer Museum.
[freakware 0.4 image] [README]
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