



Going back in time to have fun with Kubuntu 6.06.1
With the recent release of Kubuntu 26.04 LTS I thought I would go back in time to the very first Kubuntu LTS that was released way back in 2006, which is Kubuntu 6.06.
You can grab the old ISOs here, all downloadable right to the very first version: https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/kubuntu/
It's a real blast and I had fun checking it out!
Everything works apart from hardware acceleration which is not working because my GPU is too new, so software acceleration via Mesa GLX Indirect is provided instead which uses the CPU. It's not bad for simple apps but for complex games and apps your performance will be too slow to be usable.
You can get the package manager up and running by pointing all of the repos to old-releases.ubuntu.com as shown, which allows you to download many 2006 era Linux apps, like an ancient version of Wine and Supertux :D
I'm using Virtual Machine manager to run this, with 1 CPU and 1024MB of RAM, with the sound set to ac97.