Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 8th Feb 2009 14:50 UTC, submitted by QPounder
What did the Linux world look like back in 2000? TuxRadar has republished a distribution round-up from Linux Format issue 1, May 2000. Many distributions 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. Still, it does bring back some memories.
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2006-01-28
That the X11 desktop still looked like that in 2000. And it sure brought back memories of egcs all of a sudden, I'd almost forgotten about that forking of gcc when gcc stagnated for almost a decade...
OTOH I can still remember installing linux the first time on a 80386 and having to bootstrap gcc (3 compile cycles) and then build just about everything from source. XF86 took a LONG time to compile...
First distro that I installed was SLS back when I think it was still on the 0.98 or 0.99 series of kernels... and stuff would still run with 4 or 8MB of RAM which is all my machine had at the time IIRC, but was an AMD 486DX40 w/VESA localbus(picked the wrong bus, since PCI came out at about the same time and won) by then IIRC.