Containers with elderly to ancient Linux versions

[Nils Kassube]

Liam Proven wrote:
> I have, or had, a VM somewhere with WordPerfect for Linux running on
> Ubuntu -- but the last version it works on is Ubuntu 8.04. Having it
> in a VM works but is not very satisfactory.
> 
> It occurred to me that an Ubuntu 8.04 container -- LXC, Docker,
> whatever -- would be a far more elegant way of doing it.

For a similar task I use schroot - have a look at
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebootstrapChroot>. And please note 
that you need http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu as archive for the 
debootstrap command (instead of http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/) 
because hardy is no longer available in the standard repositories.


Nils