#linuxhistory — Public Fediverse posts
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Linux wasn't always easy to use. From editing XF86Config to fighting Wi-Fi chipsets and package dependencies, here are 12 Linux headaches that quietly disappeared over the past 25 years.
Full story here: https://ostechnix.com/linux-headaches-we-thankfully-never-have-to-deal-with-anymore/
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«I’ve spent several hours waiting for this bzImage to compile, but all I’ve got is this lousy “LI”!» #justthinkin #vintagecomputing #linuxhistory
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🙃 Installing Mandrake 10.1 lol
#Linux #MandrakeLinux #Mandriva #LinuxHistory #RetroLinux #OldSchoolLinux
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🚀 Ah, the glory days of #VA #Linux, where selling dreams of penguins 🐧 on servers led to the dotcom era's biggest #IPO circus. A model so groundbreaking it's now a relic of tech fossils 🦖. Who knew Linux could cause such a stock market comedy show? 😂
https://dfarq.homeip.net/va-linux-the-biggest-dotcom-ipo/ #LinuxHistory #DotcomEra #TechFossils #StockMarketComedy #HackerNews #ngated -
I am almost certain this isn't going to install lol
#Linux #RetroComputing #LinuxDistro #OpenSource #LinuxHistory #Tux #LinuxLife #Nostalgia #Unix #FOSS #TechThrowback
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Well, here it is. Libranet GNU/Linux 2.7 Classic
#Linux #RetroComputing #LinuxDistro #OpenSource #LinuxHistory #Tux #LinuxLife #Nostalgia #Unix #FOSS #TechThrowback
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Hmm... heard of this distro but never tried it before. Guess I will today if it works
#Linux #RetroComputing #LinuxDistro #OpenSource #LinuxHistory #Tux #LinuxLife #Nostalgia #Unix #FOSS #TechThrowback
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Okay we're fine now. Take Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4
#Linux #RetroComputing #LinuxDistro #OpenSource #LinuxHistory #Tux #LinuxLife #Nostalgia #Unix #FOSS #TechThrowback
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People seemed to like my Mandrake 7.2 install so have 5.1 too. Glad it worked this time :blobsmile:
#MandrakeLinux #Linux #RetroComputing #LinuxDistro #OpenSource #LinuxHistory #Tux #LinuxLife #Nostalgia #Unix #FOSS #TechThrowback #Mandriva #Mandrake
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Something has gone wrong heh. This was supposed to be Mandrake 5.1
#MandrakeLinux #Linux #RetroComputing #LinuxDistro #OpenSource #LinuxHistory #Tux #LinuxLife #Nostalgia #Unix #FOSS #TechThrowback #Mandriva #Mandrake
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Hi Mandrake Linux... or Linux Mandrake?
#MandrakeLinux #Linux #RetroComputing #LinuxDistro #OpenSource #LinuxHistory #Tux #LinuxLife #Nostalgia #Unix #FOSS #TechThrowback #Mandriva #Mandrake
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🌐 From NetWare & NT 3.51 to Linux in ‘96—read a 30-year technologist's retrospective on Linux's evolution from a licensing workaround to the world's backbone OS.
📖 A deep dive into its early struggles, hard-won victories, and what comes next.
🔗 https://linuxexpert.org/from-licenses-to-liberation/
#Linux #OpenSource #SysAdmin #DevOps #FOSS #Debian #LinuxHistory #ServerLife
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Article from @lwn
"The first honest-to-goodness distribution with a proper installer was MCC Interim Linux, created by Owen Le Blanc, released publicly in early 1992. I recently reached out to Le Blanc to learn more about his work on the distribution, what he has been doing since, and his thoughts on Linux in 2025."
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Screenshot of the SCO Group's website as it appeared on November 28, 2002
#Tech #Linux #SCOLinux #OpenSource #TechHistory #LinuxHistory #OperatingSystem #2002Tech #UnitedLinux #SoftwareDevelopment
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📝 Dive into the history of Gentoo Linux and explore why its niche focus kept it from achieving widespread success. A cautionary tale about the balance between flexibility and accessibility in Linux development. 🐧🔍
Read more: https://linuxexpert.org/gentoo-linux
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25 years ago today on @LWN -- current stable kernel is 2.2.11, development release is 2.3.14. A patch had just made it possible to use a whopping 4GB of RAM on x86 systems.
Debian was readying the Potato release. SuSE 6.2 was about to ship in the U.S., and Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 was out. Red Hat's shares were trading in the $80s and it had a market cap in the $5bn range (w/less than $11m in revenue the prior year)...
Anyway, some fun reads: https://lwn.net/1999/0819/
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LWN: PipeWire: The Linux audio/video bus
Nice piece of history of how the new standard #Linux #audio server came to be. #linuxhistory #pipewire #pulseaudio
