hi I'm an IT student.I need an old version of any distribution of desktop linux with poor GUI. it's needed for an "HCI presentation" in university to analyze linux GUI and its improvement through its life. I 'll be glad to get any links to download an old version of linux or any video clips related to my topic. You 'll be appreciated in my slides. Thank you!

http://ftp.metalab.unc.edu/pub/historic-linux/

Thanks alot my friend. It helped so much.

But I have a question.I went to redhat distribution. it had two DIRs. one with "iso/" and another one with "os" name. iso was empty. but there was some files in os. I dont know how to use them! how can I install the oldest version of redhat?

You might find some old Red Hat versions here ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/ ftp://archive.download.redhat.com/../pub/redhat/linux/ [Modified by: rokytnji on October 29, 2008 01:44 PM]

If all you need are screenshots, try here. http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.php?

If you wanted to demo linux at various stages of its gui improvement, you could just run Vector Linux, which includes 5 window managers, from the most basic to the pretty advanced xfce. MWM and TWM are included, giving you the original Unix type environment. Fluxbox window manager is the core of older computers running linux. And JWM is like Windows 98SE for linux. It makes comparing the evolution of GUI's as easy as logging out and logging back in (selecting a different WM). Really cool.

Anybody know, where can i find old versions of Xandros Linux?

http://cdlinux.info/archive/0.4/ there are all versions since 2005

http://kernel.org/ Here is Linux. All distros are just addons to Linux.