Hey, where do you find the ISOs for these old distros?
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Ooh damn. Mandrake was my first distro, I remember being sooo excited when the CDs came in the mail. It was I think 4 discs?
The experience was absolutely not good lol. At the time I only had one computer (some eMachines something or other) and a 56k line that only went to 14400 or 2600 baud depending on the weather. My NIC wasn't supported and after some banging my head on the desk I ended up going back to windows 98se after a few days because it was the family computer I messed up and caught sooo much flak for wiping.
Returned some years later when it was called Mandriva and had a better experience with a custom built AMD machine. The eMachines machine by then was still around as a network file server running a flavour of BSD that served media to my OG xbox played through XBMC (now Kodi).
Great post OP and thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Multiple desktops, 1999. What an amazing feature.
A quick web search suggests that macOS (then OS X) got this in 2007 ("Spaces"), and Windows not until 2015.
This alone makes this GUI more functional IMHO.
Most Unix systems had it in CDE, 1993. Most also had it in whatever came before.
The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000, released in 1985.
The first implementation of virtual desktops for Unix was vtwm in 1990.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop
It had been the expected default for pretty much an entire decade. Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll. Not sure if anyone really liked using that.
Gimp's mascot is in some kind of hard drugs in that icon
Looks like Crash Bandicoot on drugs
Xkill... Now that's a name I havent heard in a long time :-)