Sweet! That’s what I was hoping to hear. Seems like the simplest solution. Thanks for the info.

Should I mirror an archived version onto a VM to view the package structure and copy it on a modern distro? Or is there a simpler way to see what packages it would need?

I’m new to linux, so forgive me if it seems like an obvious question

Wouldn’t “distroless” just mean LFS?

I mean, if they’re packaging an OS for distribution, what makes that distroless?