I love those old project codenames. They were all connected to each other, but different. Manthattan -> Apollo (both were “Projects”). Apollo to Hedwig (both were characters), etc.
Cartman and Zoot!
GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
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Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#32Motif is peak UI
It is showcased in the SGI Indigo Magic Desktop.
You can build similar GUI apps with FLTK today
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure! How about a description?
It looks like Lode Runner, but even more simple as I remember. Not sure if it came together with KDE. So long ago.
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#34If you go through the trouble of trying one of these ancient distributions, use a mode line calculator (e.g., https://arachnoid.com/modelines/index.html ) for your XFree86.config. With that, it's straightforward to get it working on a 16:9, 16:10, or any other resolution.
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#35People still don't believe me when I say this was a real thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_VxrcNgUlM (Red Hat Linux Once Featured A REDNECK Translation)
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#36People still don't believe me when I say this was a real thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_VxrcNgUlM (Red Hat Linux Once Featured A REDNECK Translation)
Pirate and Swedish Chief too if I remember correctly.
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#37Red Hat Linux on the family PC in the 90's changed the course of my life.
can I ask how it has changed the course of your life? I've deen daily driving Ubuntu with KDE for about 2 years now. it's been great and I've had a lot of fun exploring things and learning the GNU tools in particular. I've been interested in contributing to some projects but that hasn't been very accessible so far.
Introduced me to Linux. Nobody on the school playground had even heard of it. Helped fuel my lifelong interest in computers. The Linux and tech experience contributed to my current role.
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#38I remember this era. It was Slackware, Caldera, TurboLinux, Mandrake and lots of hours with `./configure; make && make install` executions, reading Linux magazines and big fat books on getting it up and running (losing "precious" data in the process as well). Seeing scary fsck messages when booting up a PC that wasn't properly shutdown. I also remember that there was WinLinux 2000 for those who where scared having a…
> ./configure; make && make install
This was what eventually lead me to Gentoo, if I'm going to have to compile some things why not all the things?
And being able to install mpg123 without installing X, that was nice.
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#39RH 8.0 was my introduction to Linux and fighting with winmodems. After a few months I found an external US Robotics 56k modem which made exploring the web much easier. My whole career in tech can be traced back to that time.
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#40Why does this Gnome beta preview have TWM windowing? Was the Gnome kind not available yet?
IIRC on this version of Red Hat TWM was the default window manager installed. FVWM, WindowMaker, and maybe Enlightenment shipped on the disc. Again IIRC the next version (5.2) used FVWM95 by default. Maybe 6.0 shipped with FVWM95 by default. It's been a minute.
5.2 had FVWM95 as the default. There were menu options to restart in AfterStep and something else, probably twm.
That was my first Linux.
I also compiled qvwm, mlvwm, IceWM from scratch. And ultimately settled on Blackbox.