[mdlug] Compression and Archiving

[Michael Corral]

2010-01-12, Monsieur Jeff Hanson a ecrit:
> Obviously this implies keeping a copy of the OS and support libraries.
> Since x86 may be long gone in ten years you should probably keep a PC
> in storage to support the software and drives.
>
> (this only sounds ridiculous to those who haven't been involved in
> corporate data archiving)

Good advice.

Even in Linux, there are some old X11 apps that will segfault with newer
versions of the Xorg server (e.g. Corel WordPerfect 8.1 for Linux).
I keep a Fedora Core 4 box around just to run that and a few other
old apps (including some libc5-based ones).

Michael