[lug] For love or money: 1994 Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux CD

Walter Pienciak wpiencia at thunderdome.ieee.org
Tue Sep 16 09:43:17 MDT 2008


On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:24:55AM -0600, Walter Pienciak wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:08:07AM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > A friend is very very interested in finding an installation CD or .iso
> > for the Yggdrasil Linux Release circa 1994.  He's willing to buy it or
> > borrow it to do some limited testing.  Help finding a PC of ~1994
> > vintage to load the CD on would also be appreciated, since he doubts
> > the old CD will load on a modern IDE-based PC.
> > 
> > Yggdrasil is a very early commercial version of Linux, with some
> > interesting early features.
> > 
> > Let me know if you can help or have any tips.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
> 
> Neal, I have an Yggdrasil CD around here, which I can copy for you.
> (I just saw it a week ago, but don't remember which release. I'm
> digging around my office now.)
> 
> Walter

Summer 1994 release.  E-mail or call 303-527-0934 to figure out a
transfer for the copy I'm burning now.  Plug and play, all the
Andrew stuff, pretty exciting at the time without the pain of a
very long download process.

Walter



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