Subj : Old Distro Broken Browser
To   : Brad Hansen
From : Kai Richter
Date : Sun Aug 29 2021 01:39 pm

Hello Brad!

28 Aug 21, Brad Hansen wrote to All:

BH> I have a very old Distro of Ubuntu,
BH> Most Web-Sites give SSL errors..

For good reason.

BH> Has anyone had problems with SSL on older systems??

You should be more detailed. At first you talked about old distro, now we are talking about old systems. The first is software, the second is hardware and software in my understanding.

BH> to get into irc.freenode.net they got taken over and deleted a bunch
BH> of accounts mine was one of the firsts, almost 18 year old account and
BH> was deleted

BH> They have killed the old school command line clients..

No, you died due to ageing. Nothing lasts forever.
You can stop but the world will move on.

I don't see how we could be helpful. If you have an old computer a virtual machine would not be working. I put an old windows95 programm into a VirtualBox VM and it sill works well but it doesn't need to be online.

To keep in touch with online services you need to update to supported protocols. The only option i see if you have really no other option to migrate your system is a gateway server that can talk to the actual world with the latest security protocols and translates the data to the outdated ex-standards.

Regards

Kai

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