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A Trip Down Distro Memory Lane
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."
It was the first time I learned of UNIX and saw Gnome in action.
It was also the last year of fun before that fucking stupid backwoods retard Bush and his buddies flew Jets and cruise missiles into important buildings so that they would have an excuse to develop the Department of Homeland Gestapo and rape the privacy of Americans as well as loot the rest of the world.
And look where we are today. Fuck those of you who voted for Reagan, Bush I, and especially Bush II.
Read my lips -- suck my dick!
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
I'd be interested if you could give a full breakdown of what SuSE's shortcomings are since Novell took them over. I've used SuSE since the late 90s. It was never foolproof, no distro is, but despite trying a number of other distros I still find it preferable to all of them, including Ubuntu.
Is that you, Eric?