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by mathiasgredal 875 days ago
Sure, but how useful is that when you can’t install any packages, since the package repositories only host packages for supported versions.

When a distro goes EOL, the package repositories typically move to the next supported version and delete all of the old packages.
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dsr_ 875 days ago
Debian has all of the packages in archives.

https://www.debian.org/distrib/archive

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boomboomsubban 875 days ago
Even Arch has five years worth of kernel releases in their archives, with older versions offloaded to the internet archive.
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mathiasgredal 874 days ago
Yeah, but regular package binaries get nuked pretty quickly to make space for new ones, especially on mirrors.
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boomboomsubban 874 days ago
This went from "these ISOs are impossible to find" to "ok, but the packages are impossible to find" to "yeah, but they're not in the regular repos anymore."

If you want to do something unusual, you should expect to jump through a few hoops.

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seba_dos1 874 days ago
Perhaps if you're running some obscure niche distros. For all the major ones, this is just plain false.
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