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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. Re:SuSE Ruled... by hawk · · Score: 1, Troll

    I put it on a couple of computers in 2005 or so. After several months, it went into an upgrade hell--I think it was that Yast tried something in the wrong order. It could go neither back nor forward. When it happened on both, I threw my hands up and switched to kubuntu.

    Then again, if it handled the latest flash (or even recent enough for the kids' sites), I'd just switch entirely to FreeBSD. Unfortunately, it doesn't (though I believe Adobe demonstrated a prerelease of Flash 10 on FreeBSD). Even using the linux versions of the browsers, flash leads to too many crashes.

    hawk