Project Description
SUSE dissolved an old warehouse, containing lots and lots of boxes with old SUSE / SuSE / S.u.S.E software. All of those boxes were originally going to be dumped in March 2021, which could be prevented.
The original aim of this project aimed to screen the existing stock and create an inventory list. With this list it may be easier to decide what should be preserved and what can be dumped forever.
The final goal is to preserve the older part of SUSE's history and keep at least one copy of each item.
Results
- The Virtual SUSE Museum - documenting every release
- Inventory list an almost complete inventory list of the SUSE Archive and the SUSE Museum (minus a few loose floppy disks).
- Image gallery with detailed pictures of the complete treasure!
Goal for Hack Week 24
Archive, archive, archive! We have a dedicated workflow script now, two people can work in parallel on two fully equipped workstations.
Result: Archived about 2/3 of the SLE 7 releases, including the SuSE Linux eMail Server, SuSE Linux Groupware Server and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7, see the SLE part of the archive.
Goal for Hack Week 23
Now that we know what's there let's document it!
I started to archive things, but I'm currently lacking the time to continue this in my free time. An initial digital museum page has been created called The Virtual SUSE Museum to document the individual releases.
- Website changes: Improve performance (images on product page are loaded in full resolution), rework metadata structure to make adding new releases easier.
- Rewrite file list generator: the current Shell script is extremely slow. Introduce some new format to store file lists as metadata, too.
- Scan, archive and document more releases and add them to the webpage.
- Try to get a hand on more releases.
Goal for Hack Week 20
- Create an inventory list of the existing stock. Lots of hidden gems and unknown products there!
- Keep one of each item for SUSE's museum.
- Find potentially interested parties (employees, archives / museum) for remaining stock.
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This project is part of:
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almost 4 years ago by jbohac | Reply
FYI, we had a very modest "museum" (some 20-30 boxes on display) in the Prague office before the last move from Lihovarská to Křižíkova (few years back). I remember these got packed in some boxes and are likely lying somewhere in storage. I don't think there were any rare boxes there but if you're interested, we could try to find these in the Prague office storage, possibly send you the ones you're missing and throw out the rest as well.
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almost 4 years ago by fos | Reply
I guess I should mention that I'm talking about ~50 moving boxes (I've adjusted the description accordingly), each containing dozens of individual software boxes, so it is really taking a lot of space.
If it's really just 20-30 individual boxes, then I'd suggest keeping them and think about restoring the small museum instead ;-)
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almost 4 years ago by tdz | Reply
Hi! I'd be interested in old Suse Linux distros for nostalgia, specifically 5.1. That was my first Linux. I'd even have an old Pentium here to run it :)
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almost 4 years ago by fos | Reply
I think I've seen very few copies of it! (Though I'm not entirely sure any more - I've seen so many boxes and had so little time...) The oldest versions I've found so far were Slackware based, but came in a jewel case only.
I'll definitely reserve one for you if there are some in the archive! (And if this project gets approved in this form by our management - a reply is still outstanding.)
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almost 4 years ago by tdz | Reply
I hope this doesn't look too greedy: I also have fond memories of Suse Linux 6.3. So if 5.1 is not available, 6.3 would also be nice.
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over 3 years ago by fos | Reply
Greedy? I'm glad about every piece that doesn't get trashed, so feel free to request whatever you want
SuSE Linux 6.3 is available in multiple editions, so choose wisely or take one of each.
S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1 is also available, but only in English or in the Business Variant for Siemens Nixdorf - I assume there should be a German retail box too, but it's not there...
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Reply to fos
Greedy? I'm glad about every piece that doesn't get trashed, so feel free to request whatever you want
SuSE Linux 6.3 is available in multiple editions, so choose wisely or take one of each.
S.u.S.E. Linux 5.1 is also available, but only in English or in the Business Variant for Siemens Nixdorf - I assume there should be a German retail box too, but it's not there...
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almost 4 years ago by ancorgs | Reply
In Canary we also have a very modest exposition (in an office we use to share among several home-office workers). See it at paste.opensuse.org/4794494
It would be cool to have the opportunity to raise a voice before the discarded boxes are dumped. We may like to adopt some of them.
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over 3 years ago by fos | Reply
I fear you won't take the whole stock, will you?
I still hope at least some parts will find a new owner.
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I fear you won't take the whole stock, will you?
I still hope at least some parts will find a new owner.
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almost 4 years ago by jsevans | Reply
While not exactly the same thing that you are doing, I found this a while back while doing Usenet research: https://groups.google.com/g/de.comp.os.linux/c/94xlEQPngEE/m/WH9OEfaDc5cJ One of, if not the very first, advertisement for SUSE 1.0
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over 3 years ago by fos | Reply
It seems that post is actually announcing the second version if the stock is complete - and we have posters announcing the 1.0 release!
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Let's see whether the corresponding discs can be found in some box
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over 3 years ago by q5sys | Reply
I'm definitely interested if you have extras you are willing to part with to a collector, I've been piecing together a collection over the past decade... here's the current state: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-9rGtx5k/0/485bbd5a/X5/i-9rGtx5k-X5.jpg For SuSe versions, I have Boxed 4.3, unboxed 5.1, Boxed and Sealed 5.3 (two of them), then 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 Personal, 8.0 Professional, 8.1 Personal, 8.1 Professional, 8.1 Personal, 8.2 Professional, 9.0 Personal, 9.0 Professional, 9.1 Personal, 9.1 Professional, 9.2 Professional, 9.3 Professional, 9 Enterprise, 10.0, 10.1, 11.0 Most of the older ones never made it to North America so they are impossible for me to track down.
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over 3 years ago by tux93 | Reply
Very cool Project, if there are no other takers I'd be interested in one of the 8.2 Professional boxes, as that was my first contact with Linux as kid on moms PC
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over 3 years ago by fos | Reply
You'd just have to define which one(s) - there are multiple languages and variations available
- German
- German (Update)
- German (with t@x 2003)
- German (Update, with t@x 2003)
- German (with PartitionMagic 8.0)
- English
- English (Update)
- English (with PartitionMagic 8.0)
- Spanish
- Italian
- Hungarian
See http://digitalimagecorp.de/misc/fotos/galerie-1/IMG20210325122327_7.jpg for a visual overview.
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over 3 years ago by tux93 | Reply
Whoops missed your reply, I'm inclined to ask for a German box since that's what we had and an English one for homecomputermuseum.nl since I doubt there was a Dutch version ^^;
btw the picture you linked is 8.1, 8.2 was right next to it ;) http://digitalimagecorp.de/misc/fotos/galerie-1/IMG20210325122343_4.jpg
- German
- German (Update)
- German (with t@x 2003)
- German (Update, with t@x 2003)
- German (with PartitionMagic 8.0)
- English
- English (Update)
- English (with PartitionMagic 8.0)
- Spanish
- Italian
- Hungarian
Reply to fos
You'd just have to define which one(s) - there are multiple languages and variations available
See http://digitalimagecorp.de/misc/fotos/galerie-1/IMG20210325122327_7.jpg for a visual overview.
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Very cool Project, if there are no other takers I'd be interested in one of the 8.2 Professional boxes, as that was my first contact with Linux as kid on moms PC
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