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A Trip Down Distro Memory Lane

Posted by timothy on from the early-nostalgia-is-the-best-kind dept.

M-Saunders writes "What did the Linux world look like back in 2000? TuxRadar has republished a distro roundup from Linux Format issue 1, May 2000. Many distros such as SUSE, Mandrake and Red Hat are still around in various incarnations, but a few such as Corel and Definite have fallen by the wayside."

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  1. TuxRadar by hduff · · Score: 3, Informative
    TuxRadar is an online effort to re-publish archives of LinuxFormat magazine on-line. As a former LFX contributor, I applaud this.

    At http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page , they are also attempting to convert the PDF stories into WIKI format. This could be a a valuable repository of technical and historical information.

    I support their efforts and release to LFX and an all rights I may hold in any contribution I may have made to LFX. (I was an early contributor and some of my work was not done under their standard contract.)

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  2. Re:what happened to Corel Linux? by ramandu · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was bought by the Xandros corp. about 2001. So for most practical purposes Corel linux is still around.

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  3. Re:SuSE Ruled... by Vlad_the_Inhaler · · Score: 3, Informative

    YaST is a general config utility with modules to handle a large range of hardware and software packages.
    You set up Networking with YaST, which boot scripts are started under which runlevels. When YaST is not enough, well - then you edit the config files by hand. No big deal.

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