Re: Insanely frustrating finding older distributions

2023-01-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 08:54:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daemon Bernstein writes: > > Also, there are NO Nvidia drivers for my old video card on those newer > > distributions, and older drivers will not install. > > Just as a side note, we're not very happy about this situation either,

Re: Insanely frustrating finding older distributions

2023-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Daemon Bernstein writes: > Also, there are NO Nvidia drivers for my old video card on those newer > distributions, and older drivers will not install. Just as a side note, we're not very happy about this situation either, but because the drivers are non-free and NVIDIA doesn't keep supporting

Re: Insanely frustrating finding older distributions

2023-01-11 Thread Daniel Lange
I find https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/ https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/archive/ useful as these have the Free and non-free (i.e. including proprietary firmware and drivers) installers for older Debian versions. Additionally

Re: Insanely frustrating finding older distributions

2023-01-11 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 03:45:42 -0600, Daemon Bernstein wrote: > I had to keep searching on a search engine to find the archive. Debian's > website search could not find it. I was curious and tried … If I go to https://www.debian.org/ and type "archive" in the search box at the top right, the

Insanely frustrating finding older distributions

2023-01-11 Thread Daemon Bernstein
Hi, I just spent way too much time trying getting the run around trying to find the older distributions. I have an older computer that locks up using versions 10 and 11 when I use VLC. Also, there are NO Nvidia drivers for my old video card on those newer distributions, and older drivers will