Enjoying 1990's Linux on an $8 PC From 1995!
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Published 2024-07-20
SYSTEM SPECS
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System: Packard Bell Axcel 831CDT
CPU: 100MHz Intel Pentium
RAM: 32mb 72-pin SIMM
Graphics: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 1mb
OS: Red Hat Linux 5.2
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All Comments (21)
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Alternate title: Ionic struggles with CRT refresh rates for 20 minutes
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Linux Desktop really has come such a long way. Thanks for this look back!
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$8 isn't bad considering the crazy prices Pentium PCs are going for at the moment.
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17:29 Did you just blur how to exit vim?
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This is my exact memory of 90's Linux, spending 4 days trying to get X11 to start correctly lmao 😂
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Open suse lets gooo. The most underrated linux distro.
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Packard Smell!
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Memories of my old redhat rig in 98. Turned on xsnow and headed to the relatives for Christmas. Came back and felt all warm and fuzzy in front of my snowy desktop :)
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This PC case looks so amazing for being basically a large box
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babe wake up the 80tb dual xeon 2697 server guy uploaded
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BitchX is an IRC client, almost the de facto one on GNU/Linux systems back in the day.
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I can't even remember whether it was Redhat, or Debian, or Stampede I was running in 1999, but it was a joy to use. Back then my desktop was Enlightenment 0.14, or Sawfish, or WindowMaker. Back then I was a heretic who used xemacs.
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I see astolfo. you are man of culture. Great Video btw.
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This was really fun thank you for this video
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Wowe does that pc take me back! And all those problems you had, I had them too. My Mother got me one of these at a thrift in 2006 for the price of about $10. I thought it was so dope af because I made a matching set of the CRT, mouse, and keyboard. My greatest success was installing The Sims 2 on it. It ran like dog poo and would freeze up solid after a few minutes 😂 I'm talking BSOD up in that lol All it came with was Windows 98 SE and a few little saved webpages, a zine made by a kid, and not much else. Wish I had saved some of those webpages because they were dated from about 1996 and 1997. Guessing it originally ran Windows 95 but was updated which explained weird leftover files in the Windows folder. Good times messing with old PCs and getting glimpses into the digital past which isn't as well archived as most may think. Thank you!
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Whoah, I saw XFCE there. I never knew it was this old.
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i love your videos Ionic1K!
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Watching this, we can really appreciate how easier it is now to install Linux!
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Subscribed, I'm seeing some of your other videos. good stuff!
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god i love watching your videos great stuff man keep it up <3
