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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RE: Slackware 2 and RedHat 4.1...
by renox on Sun 8th Feb 2009 18:26
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I disagree.
IMHO Windows98 was still a very fragile OS, Windows2000/XP/Vista/7 are based on a totally different kernel, and Vista/7 tries to fix the unsafe security defaults of the previous version: these are big change!
Linux has far less evolved than this for the desktop usage, the major difference is that there are more drivers more software and better polished (if still lacking on many accounts) but the base was already solid so there were less change.
The biggest change is still not done yet: good handling of 3D videocards.
RE[2]: Slackware 2 and RedHat 4.1...
by gilboa on Mon 9th Feb 2009 05:16
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P.S. I just rechecked. The first RedHat that I bought was RedHat 3.0.3. (~1996?)
I disagree.
IMHO Windows98 was still a very fragile OS, Windows2000/XP/Vista/7 are based on a totally different kernel, and Vista/7 tries to fix the unsafe security defaults of the previous version: these are big change!
IMHO Windows98 was still a very fragile OS, Windows2000/XP/Vista/7 are based on a totally different kernel, and Vista/7 tries to fix the unsafe security defaults of the previous version: these are big change!
I was actually being nice to Microsoft.
At the time (1998) I was actually writing code under Windows NT4, that in many ways (along with Windows 2K) was the best OS' to ever leave the doors at Redmond. (In NT4's case, post SP3)
Linux has far less evolved than this for the desktop usage, the major difference is that there are more drivers more software and better polished (if still lacking on many accounts) but the base was already solid so there were less change.
The biggest change is still not done yet: good handling of 3D videocards.
The biggest change is still not done yet: good handling of 3D videocards.
Huh?
I can you compare the setup requirement of RedHat 4.x to Fedora? The hardware support? The configuration tools?
How can you compare GNOME 1 and KDE 1 to GNOME 2.24 and KDE 4.2?
Heck, how can you possible compare having to compiling more-or-less everything to having 1,000's of software packages with automatic version and dependency resolve?
- Gilboa
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I was first started playing with Linux in ~1995 (Slackware 2?).
I'm using the term playing, because back then, I spent most of my time getting Linux to recognize my PAS16 sound/CDROM combo and my floppy controller.
I kept playing with Linux (as opposed to really using it) till 1998 (RedHat 5.2) which was the first time I actually used Linux for something productive both at home and at work. (Reused old 486s for a couple of projects)
Fast forward to ~2001, RedHat 7.1, first time I used Linux as my main OS. While I still had Windows 2K partition on my workstation, I found that I'm using it less and less. As a result, in 2002, I switched from being a Windows (pure Win32) developer to Linux developer.
By the time RedHat 8 was released, I've found that I no longer use my Windows partition, and removed it. (Installing Windows 2K on an old unused PC)
Currently I'm using F10 with KDE 4.2 with a number of VMs (CentOS5, Slackware 12, BSD, WinXP and Win2K3) on KVM. (In order to test my code on different platforms).
People usually make fun of Linux by rehashing the old "200x will be the year of the Linux desktop" joke.
But looking back at the last 10 years, one cannot even begin to compare the difference between Windows 98 and Vista compared to the difference between RedHat 5.2 and Fedora 10 - especially given MS seemingly infinite resources.
- Gilboa