I really wish that I was born early so I’ve could witness the early years of Linux. What was it like being there when a kernel was released that would power multiple OSes and, best of all, for free?

I want know about everything: software, hardware, games, early community, etc.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    Clumsy. Manual. No multimedia support really. Compiling everything on 486 machines took hours.

    Can’t say I look back fondly on it.

    BeOS community was fucking awesome though. That felt like the cutting edge at the time.

    • randomcruft@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      1 年前

      I’m sure most are aware of this but, just incase anyone passing through is not… Haiku OS

      Works great in a VM… fun to play with, have not tried bare metal / daily driving it though.

    • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 年前

      I desperately wanted one of those first BeBoxes or whatever they were called. And one of those little SGI toasters… I even tried to compile SGI’s 3D file manager (demo) from Jurassic Park.

      Herp derp… where can I download an OpenGL from… it keeps saying I can’t build it without one 🤤