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[-] buh@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Probably debian or slackware, there weren't that many in 1999

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

There was a lot more that you’d think.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But most of those were extremely shitty or niche and got abandoned. Except Mandrake. That one was pretty good but I think I remember they were constantly having funding issues.

Mandrake was to Redhat as Ubuntu is to Debian now.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 7 months ago

So, like today?

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 7 months ago

Mandrake, Suse, Corel, Red Hat, Turbo, Conectiva, PLD, Caldera, Rock, Coyote... that's just the more well known distros, there were dozens at that point already.

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