GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009) • Hacker News Board

Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)

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Post by pmahoney » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 3:35 PM UTC

boredemployee wrote: post #25

marcodiego wrote: post #22

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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.

Could be xscavenger?

> Scavenger is a cool arcade/thinking game very much like Lode Runner. You've got to run around and collect objects while avoiding enemies. Some objects are buried and you've got to dig down to get at them. It's an addictive game and some of the levels are devilishly (cruelly) complicated to solve.

https://linuxmotors.com/linux/scavenger/index.html

Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)

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Post by thomasadam » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 5:49 PM UTC

anthk wrote: post #68

walterbell wrote: post #42

For 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...

Or just the Linux Gazzete itself: https://linuxgazette.net/archives.html This Github repo has every issue. Lots of info it's outated, but stuff on FVWM, TWM, scripting, sh, sed, awk, Perl... will just work.

Heh. I used to write for the LG...

Some of the information is out-dated yes, you'd expect that. Especially when people were asking for help about dial-up modems, for example.

But I bet if you were to try some of the other stuff on there, it would still work today...

Re: GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)

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Post by ok_dad » Tue, Jun 17, 2025, 8:17 PM UTC

pipeline_peak wrote: post #76

ok_dad wrote: post #75

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Yea I would have spent it on pizza.

That’s a lot of pizza.

Not at 10k bitcoins per pizza.