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Which distribution should I recommend to beginners to scare them? (lemmy.world)
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[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Neither existed when I installed Linux the first time.

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

When was this? Arch Linux was initially released in 2002, about a year before I tried knoppix for the first time.

What was your first distro, unless you used Linux before distros, if so what was your first installation experience like?

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Around '97, playing with MKLinux.

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Wtf reading about this, such a weird system

Linux running on top of a mach micro kernel, kind of like paravirtualized. And then the userspace and xfree86 ran on linux? And FVWM? How was that?

And then you could run Lisa apps?

[-] josefo@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago

wow, I forgot knoppix was a thing, memory unlocked

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I didn't use knoppix a lot, but I did use Mandriva more, and then Ubuntu was released and I daily drove it back then

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