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I used mandrake and then my internet friend told me to use the much better & cooler GENTOO LINUX and I bootstrapped it on a dialup connection
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echinopsis posted:i paid for a mandrake linux cd 
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Sep 27, 2019 20:14
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Bought it in a cardboard box from Best Buy  'I don't know, what I don't know' + 'I can't figure out how to find things out' = Flatten and reinstall with Windows 2000, which turned out to be the Pro-Choice. Coffee Jones fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Sep 27, 2019 20:52
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as a childe I bought boxed versions of mandrake and red hat at bestbuy I think
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Sep 27, 2019 23:25
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I started on redhat before it was split into redhat entrepise and fedora. It wasn't a good time to be using ati/amd now video cards at the time on linux.
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Sep 27, 2019 23:27
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I used mandrake it was just pain in the rear end linux
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Sep 27, 2019 23:28
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I used mandrake it was just linux
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Sep 27, 2019 23:32
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I hate command line, my brain doesn't work that way
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Sep 27, 2019 23:38
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I bought some fedora version for my powerpc mac
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Sep 28, 2019 00:18
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i started with like ubuntu 5.10 back in middle school i don't remember this one sorry
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Sep 28, 2019 01:52
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:wait ppl are saying that mandrake was good but it was a french (!) linux??? freedom linux
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Sep 28, 2019 05:38
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Hed posted:freedom linux 
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Sep 28, 2019 06:15
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lol
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Celexi posted:I started on redhat before it was split into redhat entrepise and fedora. It wasn't a good time to be using ati/amd now video cards at the time on linux. My first Linux was Redhat 3.0.3. I literally had to get the XFree86 guys to email me a patch then compile X from scratch to get my S3 Virge graphics card to work
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Sep 28, 2019 16:16
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feedmegin posted:My first Linux was Redhat 3.0.3. I literally had to get the XFree86 guys to email me a patch then compile X from scratch to get my S3 Virge graphics card to work and after that experience, you didn't make it your last linux?
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Sep 28, 2019 18:20
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akadajet posted:and after that experience, you didn't make it your last linux? I mean I also built the PC myself, I was ok with doing a bit of work, and this was 1996 so expectations were still pretty low if you were mad enough to run this crazy new free Unix clone thing
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Sep 28, 2019 19:11
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I ran mandrake, and later gentoo, on an old as fuu Pentium 3-500 and used e16 then I started buying cheap G4 Macs and playing with em
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Sep 28, 2019 19:23
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I never ran this but I respect it
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Sep 29, 2019 13:55
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in ~2001 i used a slackware live cd for 10 minutes and concluded (correctly) that linux was a piece of poo poo and never used it again
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Sep 29, 2019 15:09
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you should have turned the monitor on
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Sep 29, 2019 15:50
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Come to think of it, I think I did try to install mandrake back in college on my dell desktop. Couldn't get sound (of course), and tried to follow some instructions I found that involved re-compiling the kernel. After that didn't work I gave up and went back to Windows.
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Sep 29, 2019 16:28
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infernal machines posted:you should have turned the monitor on in 2001, monitors were not yet mirrors
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Sep 29, 2019 18:29
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mandrake was my first Linux too. i learned about it from an irc channel i was in around middle school. i ended up using Ubuntu for a while after that, then Debian, then Fedora. now I use the best Linux, MacOS.
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Sep 30, 2019 16:29
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I hate command line, my brain doesn't work that way same
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Sep 30, 2019 19:46
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people that don't understand shells should not be computering sorry
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Sep 30, 2019 20:01
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as true today as it was then https://twitter.com/cheeseplus/status/455765109554429953
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Sep 30, 2019 20:03
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carry on then posted:i started with like ubuntu 5.10 back in middle school 
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Sep 30, 2019 20:23
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Sorting your applications alphabetically on a KDE linux was pointless and annoying
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Back in 2011 or so the community manager for Canonical told me that he was approached by someone telling him they were thinking about buying Mandriva and wanted him to be the CTO. He replied that he had basically no technical qualifications for that and that they were probably better off setting their money on fire than buying something as irrelevant as Mandriva. wikipedia posted:On January 30, 2012, Mandriva announced that an external entity bid was rejected by a minority share holder and the deal did not go through. At the end of the first semester 2012, a solution to the situation that had appeared in January of the same year was found and a settlement achieved. Mandriva was subsequently owned by several different shareholders.
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Oct 1, 2019 02:13
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sometimes shells is better sometimes it's guis
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Linux is shells with guis inside
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Oct 1, 2019 13:53
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Schadenboner posted:Linux is shells with guis inside melts in your mouth not in your command
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Oct 1, 2019 14:01
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I used litestep on windows for a while
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GEOS foreva!
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r u ready to WALK posted:I really wanted to like freeBSD but it never worked right on my hardware by the time sata existed, freebsd was already dead as a thing freebsd was kind of the de facto standard for mom'n'pop ISPs, which had already long stopped being a thing by the time sata came along freebsd is still actively developed, to this day, in 2019, but it doesn't have a user base anymore. the folks who actually made money selling freebsd-based services are long ago gone
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i did once come into possession of a box copy of "mandrake linux," i don't remember what version the reason i don't remember what version is that the bundled manual was not written by a native english speaker and i couldn't make heads or tails of its contents i suppose the reason someone was willing to give this to me for free was that the manual made no god drat sense at all, so, yeah
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on mandriva i compiled some kind of driver wrapper for my PCMCIA or whatever wifi card for my laptop and it wokred. my first time inside the terminal 
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back in those days you had to use some binaries from the windows drivers for a bunch of different hardware, and naturally they weren't FOSS licensed so no one would distribute them with the OS, you had to grab the drivers yourself and follow a guide to get basic poo poo working. it was very linux
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Smythe posted:on mandriva i compiled some kind of driver wrapper for my PCMCIA or whatever wifi card for my laptop and it wokred. my first time inside the terminal lmao, hadn't thought of ndiswrapper in so long yeah, extremely linux for the time
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see also: winmodems, realtek sound chipsets (lol, sound didn't work anyway)
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