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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.
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Heh, that box and version of Redhat was the first I tried Linux, as well as the same year - 1999 Cost me $110 brand new from a local stationary shop. Which was a lot for a poor student! Sadly didn’t last long as I just couldn’t get everything done in Linux as I could in Windows. And this was despite studying computing at the time.
Oh well 15 years later I tried again (Mint then Arch) and haven’t gone back to Windows since. 🎉
In the 90s during the first “mild hype”, I had Suse for quite a while, twice. Same problem with unavailable software though, I remember PGP Disc not being available back then. I remember the cool kids talking about Red Hat and Debian, you must have been one of them.
Probably going back now, since my 2011 hardware won’t work with Windows 11.
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.
Anybody got a spare master/slave jumper for a hard drive?
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.
Yep, I assumed they would have run across them on a motherboard, or sata card at least, but no. It was like I got dropped from a time machine and was aaking for a phonograph
Now you’re set for life though so it all worked out for the best 👍
I just picked these up today
2005 here I come
😂😂😂
I got a copy of Turbolinux 6 from a Hamfest and never managed to get it installed correctly. A few years later, I did succeed in running Debian and Gentoo in college.
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.
I think in 2001 I was making a Linux from scratch system having not gotten enough from red hat and Debian with home configured and compiled kernels
Fun times and no, nothing like the commercial home operating systems back then
RHEL 6.1 is EOL thus should not be used. I would recommend Debian 12
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This is RedHat Linux 6.1, it was EOL way before RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 came around
Wow. I had this on my removable hard drive for our operating systems class in college back in 2000.
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.
yea no way i would have been willing or even able to troubleshoot it at that time.
i just gave up until ubuntu came around many years later and just worked.
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.
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.
Love me some makertube.
This was also my first Linux distro after having used Sun’s Solaris while at uni. I think I tried out Slack and Suse at around the same time, but stuck with RedHat and related distros for about 6 years.
The best logo
I remember seeing that on the shelf next to a copy of SuSe during my regular visits to CompUSA. I had just barely developed an interest in computer gaming at the time, still a few years prior to my first experience with LiGNUx. I always wondered when it turned into Fedora and Red Hat went exclusively enterprise.
