Motif is peak UI
The API was horrible, though.
GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
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Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#42For more Linux history, see the "Free Software Business" mailing list, https://web.archive.org/web/20001219073400/http://www.crynwr...
In 1999, RedHat acquired Cygnus for $674M, https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/press-cygnusa...
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#43There was a game from that Red Hat era that I loved so much, I *think* it was in Red Hat in that same period. It was a really simple adventure game in 2d, you could play in a window after typing/entering startx. But can't remember the name, I was 12 and it seems today like I dreamt about the game lol. Would appreciate if anyone remembers it!
I would suspect something on ScummVM. That is a lot of games though: https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php?title=Category:Supported_...
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#44Red 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.
Probably try to find something that hasn’t been around forever and seems solid but doesn’t have a huge contributor base.
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#45I 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…
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Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#46First time I installed linux was around 98, something went wrong and I could not boot and once able to boot could not get on the net. Went through all the information I had printed out and the books I had to no avail, called everyone I could think of. For the next week I had daily bus rides to the library where I would get on IRC to ask any question I could think of, download anything which might help, take lots of notes, make a new boot disk or two and then back home to spend the night trying to sort things out.
First thing I did when I got everything working was sign on to a couple local BBS's so I could play LORD, had to catch up on all that lost time. Felt pretty great to play LORD from console.
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#47Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#48First time I installed linux was around 98, something went wrong and I could not boot and once able to boot could not get on the net. Went through all the information I had printed out and the books I had to no avail, called everyone I could think of. For the next week I had daily bus rides to the library where I would get on IRC to ask any question I could think of, download anything which might help, take lots of n…
Wish I'd been that successful. I tried to install Red Hat in '98 with absolutely no support or help. Got the disks from a friend of mine whose dad was a SWE. I ended up (figuratively) crawling on my belly back to the computer shop where I bought the hardware to reinstall Windows. Not my proudest moment!
But in hindsight very expected. When I switched to Linux full time around 2010 I started realizing how disadvantaged I was at the time and forgave myself :-)
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#49First Linux I bought was Walnut Creek Linux CD-ROM. Second was Redhat. I would still be on Redhat if it were not for IBM and their bad faith source-available interpretation of the GPL. Then I bought Mandrake and used it as long as it was Mandrake and not the thing that became Conectiva. Then I heard about Ubuntu which would mail free CDs anywhere in the world. I was in education back then and my students would ask Ub…
I can't remember the name of the Linux CD set I would buy. It had a red background and a picture of the globe. The cds contained slackware/sunsite/gnu etc. I think it started with an "I"...
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Found it, wild nostalgia! It was infomagic. This was my first Linux install: https://archive.org/details/ldr_0895_4cd
Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)
#50I 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.
I wish I spent that time compiling Gentoo a decade and a half ago farming bitcoins instead. What a waste of time!