Post 9lx6tHuUnd3rtnnbfM by trashHeap@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #9lx3qFU14E3rdlGyFU by trashHeap@fosstodon.org
2019-08-16T17:55:56Z
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Happy Birthday @gnome I *think* the first time I encountered Gnome was when I first discovered my local best buy had started carrying retail copies of Redhat Linux. Maybe around Redhat 6.0. ( I have a strong memory of this cover art here. )Wiki tells me that was by happenstance the first time Redhat shipped Gnome by default. So, a first for both of us.
(DIR) Post #9lx3qFnVtjeocEOXdg by solderpunk@tilde.zone
2019-08-16T18:12:11Z
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@trashHeap Aaaah, that's a nostalgic sight! Redhat 5.1 was my first ever exposure to Linux. I bought it in a very similar looking box.
(DIR) Post #9lx4ojSak56dzHRmeu by solderpunk@tilde.zone
2019-08-16T18:23:09Z
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@trashHeap I remember that when you were choosing your language for the installer in 5.1, in addition to "English" you could select "Redneck", and then the entire thing was in ridiculous exaggerated yokel slang. All I can remember now is that "formatting" was referred to as "floormattin'". Surely the internet remembers the rest...ah, yes! https://imgur.com/gallery/yX5uw
(DIR) Post #9lx5E6m9C2OjXRh71k by trashHeap@fosstodon.org
2019-08-16T18:27:44Z
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@solderpunk I mostly remember how scarry it was to configure XFree86 in those days; mostly because I was easily freaked out about the CRT refresh rate warnings and how they could blowup you unspecified models of monitors.
(DIR) Post #9lx5ZdOZ6plgmtvd7A by solderpunk@tilde.zone
2019-08-16T18:31:37Z
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@trashHeap Oh yeah, I remember that! Good times.
(DIR) Post #9lx5vIjEczHz3uvbHs by trashHeap@fosstodon.org
2019-08-16T18:29:56Z
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@solderpunk That and how basically the market was flooded with soft modems with poor linux kernel support in those days. Lots of memories of being a green linux user teenager, frustrated as hell that I had to compile drivers or kernels to get dialup working.
(DIR) Post #9lx5vJ4rKaaQ8z2rzc by solderpunk@tilde.zone
2019-08-16T18:35:33Z
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@trashHeap I think I was lucky enough to have modems which worked fine. My great frustration was my damn brother not getting off the phone to his friends at the time he was supposed to, so I could use the phoneline for the internet like God intended.
(DIR) Post #9lx6KuPdenAxAzyNDE by trashHeap@fosstodon.org
2019-08-16T18:40:10Z
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@solderpunk At some point when both me and my sister were teenagers ( around 16 and 13 respectively ), my parents finally installed a second phone line.And then a year or two later coming back from college during the summer. Still with no broadband in sight, both me and my sister fighting for dialup time. Her on an eMac and me on some sort of Dell ( probably running Gentoo ?)
(DIR) Post #9lx6tHcPsqbEzjLAUC by trashHeap@fosstodon.org
2019-08-16T18:40:19Z
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@solderpunk I think I arranged for one machine to be the primary internet device, and had the other set to "dial" into a bluetooth 1.0 serial connection into the other to share a god damn 56k dialup connection.
(DIR) Post #9lx6tHuUnd3rtnnbfM by trashHeap@fosstodon.org
2019-08-16T18:41:10Z
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@solderpunk Setup a webserver and a cgi script on the "primary" machine, so the other person could trigger a dial if needed.
(DIR) Post #9lx6tIHtOdmD4MkI8O by solderpunk@tilde.zone
2019-08-16T18:46:23Z
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@trashHeap Ha, that's neat! I don't envy you, having had to share a dialup connection, though.