Oh, serendipity!
Uncategorized
89
Posts
41
Posters
0
Views
-
@pulkomandy @nina_kali_nina my first experience was Slackware off a PC magazine cover-CD in the early 00s and I've never been able to find it
@devlin @pulkomandy any chance of getting your hands on that magazine?
-
@elly most likely, yes. I've been pushing for FOSS at my school, too, and so for some time it was running Edubuntu. Which was nice. Ah, the amount of influence a 14-year-old could sometimes have!
-
@nina_kali_nina people don't always believe me when I say I've been daily driving Linux exclusively since 1998 ish.
It really wasn't an ordeal. All PCs kind of sucked back then, at least I knew why mine sucked. 😅
I had a great time using Linux back then, and I still do today.
@hp "It really wasn't an ordeal. All PCs kind of sucked back then, at least I knew why mine sucked. 😅"
That's a great quote :D
-
@nina_kali_nina I don't remember who put that Corel Linux CD in my hands. Icouldn't have downloaded it myself, it would have taken a lifetime on dialup, and we didn't have a CD burner. I guess one of my parent's friend who was a relatively early Linux adopter gave it to me? But I didn't think of asking for help then (and my parents were annoyed that I removed Windows from the machine with my experiments)
@pulkomandy aaah so real :D why so real
-
@devlin @pulkomandy any chance of getting your hands on that magazine?
@pulkomandy @nina_kali_nina my copy is long gone sadly, and search engines are crap and not forthcoming with assistance
-
So, in this thread I just must say a few words about Knoppix. Back in the days, Knoppix was a ground-breaking Linux Live CD that spawned many other Linux Live CDs. It ended up being so influential that it is almost an expectation today for a Linux distribution to have a Live CD/DVD.
Of course, nothing ever stopped people from building a Linux system capable of using a CD disk as its root file system. In fact, one of the early Linux systems, Yggdrasil, did exactly that for the installer CD. So, how Knoppix was different from Yggdrasil or DemoLinux?
The secret sauce was in a special kernel module implementing CD-ROM friendly compressed block device. Without it, the Live CD experience was subpar, and the amount of software that was shipped on the LiveCD was minuscule. Compare 1999's DemoLinux 1.1 shipping Mandrake 6 with basically just Netscape and Gimp, and Knoppix 3.2 that comes with hundreds of tools, _two_ full office suites, and even WINE - all on one CD.
( screenshots 🧵 cont)
@nina_kali_nina ah, dynebolic. I still have idempotent lunux in dyne form running in the basement.
-
@hp "It really wasn't an ordeal. All PCs kind of sucked back then, at least I knew why mine sucked. 😅"
That's a great quote :D
@nina_kali_nina @hp It was kind of an ordeal... Writing modelines for xf86config and chat scripts for your dialup to work, there was a lot of tedium for things that worked out of the box. And on a laptop? Yeah...
-
I did not expect a Linux system from 2001 to be that... feature-rich. Bugs aside, it is pretty impressive. Not only Knoppix 2.0's KDE 2 is quite usable, it ships - again - with both KOffice and Open Office, and both Konqueror and Mozilla. There is XMMS, there is GNU IMP, there is even Acrobat Reader 4.0. There's even Python and Java.
Go on, give this ancient (25 years old!) Linux distro a go: https://archive.org/details/LinuxTag - the file you're looking for is linuxtag2001.iso
If you're using Qemu, make sure to set RAM to 256 megs or less, use cirrus VGA, and go through the "expert" mode to configure your keyboard and X11. On 86Box, I recommend emulating Pentium 2 and Cirrus 5446.
====
Phew, what a thread it was! I hope you liked it :) And if you liked it, please share the love.
I think my biggest motivation for this thread was:
- Hey, look, 25 year ago Linux was already pretty great and usable. Imagine what it can do now! The sky is the limit. -
P.S. If you find Knoppix 1.4, please let me know~
@nina_kali_nina
I used it with a 2001 Toshiba Laptop in this ancient times and it worked very well.
I remember the fancy arcade shooter in Galaxians style 😁 -
I did not expect a Linux system from 2001 to be that... feature-rich. Bugs aside, it is pretty impressive. Not only Knoppix 2.0's KDE 2 is quite usable, it ships - again - with both KOffice and Open Office, and both Konqueror and Mozilla. There is XMMS, there is GNU IMP, there is even Acrobat Reader 4.0. There's even Python and Java.
Go on, give this ancient (25 years old!) Linux distro a go: https://archive.org/details/LinuxTag - the file you're looking for is linuxtag2001.iso
If you're using Qemu, make sure to set RAM to 256 megs or less, use cirrus VGA, and go through the "expert" mode to configure your keyboard and X11. On 86Box, I recommend emulating Pentium 2 and Cirrus 5446.
====
Phew, what a thread it was! I hope you liked it :) And if you liked it, please share the love.
I think my biggest motivation for this thread was:
- Hey, look, 25 year ago Linux was already pretty great and usable. Imagine what it can do now! The sky is the limit. -
P.S. If you find Knoppix 1.4, please let me know~
@nina_kali_nina By October, KDE will be thirty years old...
I started using Linux in 1992 or 1993, but definitely before my first child was born in January 1994. By end 1995, it was my primary OS, and those screenshots, well, I've seen and used all of that, and it was great to see them again!
While I'm still working on the free software application I started hacking on in 2003, I do sometimes miss those giddy days of experiments and unbridled ambition.
-
@nina_kali_nina By October, KDE will be thirty years old...
I started using Linux in 1992 or 1993, but definitely before my first child was born in January 1994. By end 1995, it was my primary OS, and those screenshots, well, I've seen and used all of that, and it was great to see them again!
While I'm still working on the free software application I started hacking on in 2003, I do sometimes miss those giddy days of experiments and unbridled ambition.
@halla I'm curious to hear if you have any ideas on what could bring back the giddy days of experiments and unbridled ambition for FOSS
-
@dgelessus this is very nice to know! Interestingly, Bing and Google didn't find anything when I searched for "ubuntu morphix". Multi-language search can give so much leverage...
@nina_kali_nina It's more just luck that my country speaks one of the 2 languages whose Wikipedia mentions this fact :) Here in Germany, putting "ubuntu morphix" into any search engine naturally shows this Wikipedia article as one of the top results, and at least DDG even highlights the relevant sentence in the text preview.
-
@nina_kali_nina It's more just luck that my country speaks one of the 2 languages whose Wikipedia mentions this fact :) Here in Germany, putting "ubuntu morphix" into any search engine naturally shows this Wikipedia article as one of the top results, and at least DDG even highlights the relevant sentence in the text preview.
@nina_kali_nina For researching things like this, it's unfortunate that no search engine lets you easily say "give me results in ALL languages, I'll figure it out, don't worry". Even DDG with the country switch off seems to filter by rough region/language based on GeoIP, at least until you reach the second page of results.
-
I did not expect a Linux system from 2001 to be that... feature-rich. Bugs aside, it is pretty impressive. Not only Knoppix 2.0's KDE 2 is quite usable, it ships - again - with both KOffice and Open Office, and both Konqueror and Mozilla. There is XMMS, there is GNU IMP, there is even Acrobat Reader 4.0. There's even Python and Java.
Go on, give this ancient (25 years old!) Linux distro a go: https://archive.org/details/LinuxTag - the file you're looking for is linuxtag2001.iso
If you're using Qemu, make sure to set RAM to 256 megs or less, use cirrus VGA, and go through the "expert" mode to configure your keyboard and X11. On 86Box, I recommend emulating Pentium 2 and Cirrus 5446.
====
Phew, what a thread it was! I hope you liked it :) And if you liked it, please share the love.
I think my biggest motivation for this thread was:
- Hey, look, 25 year ago Linux was already pretty great and usable. Imagine what it can do now! The sky is the limit. -
P.S. If you find Knoppix 1.4, please let me know~
@nina_kali_nina KNOPPIX was *great*. And underlines for me how much of our current computing world is a solution in search of a problem.
-
@elly @nina_kali_nina Amazing. I didn't even know of, or hadn't ever come across Linux in High School. 😿
-
@nina_kali_nina For researching things like this, it's unfortunate that no search engine lets you easily say "give me results in ALL languages, I'll figure it out, don't worry". Even DDG with the country switch off seems to filter by rough region/language based on GeoIP, at least until you reach the second page of results.
@dgelessus I managed to replicate this Wikipedia snippet in DDG by saying "lang:de" but uhhhh 😭
-
undefined filobus@sociale.network shared this topic
Feed RSS
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
-
@SparkIT Ecco perché le istanze troppo grandi perdono di senso.
-
Speriamo non intervenga lo stesso restauratore di San Lorenzo in Lucina... 😂
Lavori alla Cappella Sistina: un leggero strato di "salificazione" ricopre il Giudizio Universale https://www.rainews.it/video/2026/02/lavori-alla-cappella-sistina-un-leggero-strato-di-salificazione-ricopre-il-giudizio-universale-6d16fa3b-5de2-4933-87f0-e7c2b1456dc7.html
-
@max d'altro canto questo è un mondo che privilegia la sintesi all'analisi (anche se in questo caso la sintesi, pur brutale, non è lontana dalla realtà 😂 ) Zalone docet...
-
FALSO
La Cassazione ha ammesso la richiesta di referendum da parte del Comitato che a gennaio ha raggiunto le firme necessarie e formulato il nuovo quesito (che si differenzia dal precedente solo perché indica le disposizioni costituzionali).
Ciò avrebbe eventualmente richiesto che si spostasse la data del referendum di due o tre settimane. Invece il Governo ha confermato la data già fissata.
Nessuno voleva boicottare nulla. Queste continue fake news si ritorceranno contro chi ne sta abusando
-
Le due repubbliche
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2026/02/le-due-…
Il 9 febbraio in alcune zone d’Italia si celebra la ricorrenza della proclamazione della Repubblica Romana del 1849, avvenuta a seguito dei tumulti che indussero Papa Pio IX a fuggire dalla capitale. L’esperienza ebbe vita breve ma intensa, grazie soprattutto alla passione delle donne e degli uomini che furono
-
Nathalie e Manuel: “Ribellione in tempi di sorveglianza poliziesca totale”. Lettera dalle prigioni di Aichach e Stadelheim e aggiornamento dopo la scarcerazione
@anarchia
Come già riportato, noi (Nathalie e Manuel) siamo stati rilasciati inaspettatamente il 22 settembre. (Segue un
-
DG MEME (@ecmemes.bsky.social)
https://bsky.app/profile/ecmemes.bsky.social/post/3mecdkttng62w
> The man, whose identity is still unknown, seems to have strong ties with the Kremlin.
-
@ori cool, thanks for your input. I'm not proposing anything, I just think your expectations are really bad for conversations.
