Using SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional (2)

I don’t think I’ve ever taken you, dear reader, so close in one of my projects. Counting from “Installing old Linux (2)”, which itself was a follow-up to an older post, this is the eleventh post in a series about installing old Linux versions on an old machine. And I just got the first one working. Not unsuspected, the project gives me little puzzles to solve and I’m having a lot of fun figuring them out with the limited help I can get from the books and the provided internal help. The question, however, is what can I do with SuSE Linux 7.2? To my surprise, I found git on CD #2, but it wasn’t the version control system we all love and hate. It was GNU Interactive Tools, since renamed GNUIT. I have no use for GNUIT, but I learned that there was a git before git. Setting up a quick FTP server on my modern PC exposing a specific directory is the easiest way of exchanging files: $ cd ~/retro $ python -m venv venv $ . venv/bin/activate.fish $ pip install pyftpdlib $ python -m pyftpdlib…

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