Sometimes good working hardware is obsoleted by missing update support for the operating systems. Using outdated networking software from these systems on today's Internet is a security risk (to the user and the Internet as a whole), and old software might fail altogether (old SSH clients can't connect to modern SSH server, Webbrowser can't load websites using modern transport encryption, TLS).
pkgsrc is a cross-platform package manager maintained by the NetBSD project. With pkgsrc, it is possible to compile and install modern Linux/Unix tools and applications on Unix systems that were abandoned by their makers.
In this talk, I will give my experience, tips and tricks with keeping old Unix systems up-to-date:
Speakers: Carsten Strotmann