What has your experience with Linux been like so far? How long has been your Linux journey? Mine began while I was studying computer science, and I’ve been in love with Linux since.
I just picked these up today
2005 here I come
I bought a copy of Corel Linux in 2001 at a USAF base exchange because I was a broke airman and was building my first homebuilt PC and didn’t want to shell out money for Windows, and I didn’t have Internet to pirate it in the dorms (this was the days of no wifi and pay as you go Internet cafes). I thought it’d be JUST like Windows, and I could get shit done, and the differences were just like those between Mac/PC. Just a different interface.
Boy was I wrong. It sucked balls. I didn’t pick up Linux again until Ubuntu in 2006. Now I daily drive Debian. Oh well, at least it came with an inflatable penguin.
Wow. I had this on my removable hard drive for our operating systems class in college back in 2000.
Seeing all the issues in the video, I feel like my experience with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx as my first self-installed Linux OS was much smoother :D
Oh yeah. Ubuntu really simplified everything.
My first distro on my own PC was Mandrake. I don’t know how many times I had to reinstall it because of my fuckups.
Two years later I was compiling my own kernel with the source code of special modules that I had downloaded for my NVidia card that had composite video input.
I’ve never had to compile a kernel since Ubuntu. I completely forgot to be honest.
God, I’m soooo glad you don’t need to compile anything anymore. I spent my entire early 20’s debugging C compile errors building LAMP stacks… I had forgotten (blocked out?) how many things you used to need to compile yourself…
me too. it had some unspecified issue with xorg that prevented bootup and i was never able to fix.
Internet access was more complicated back then. If you didn’t have a second computer or couldn’t dual boot into a working OS it was a big problem. And there wasn’t a lot of Linux users back then either.
What COM Port is your mouse on?
That question got me. SO glad we got past setting IRQs and setting up modems and dip switches and all that.
I have a pack of about 40. I needed 2 to set some old drives and talked to Geek Squad staff and other local computer places. The young staff had no clue what I was describing, so I had to order in bulk on AliExpress
must have been an awkward thing to ask someone who’s never heard of them, using the correct terminology.
is there a website with all the redhat box art of that time.
I remember having this box or another similar.
The .1 is very memorable.
