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Smythe
Oct 12, 2003


rip to mandrake / mandriva linux RIP pour one out for this epic OS








argghh i cant believe its gone!! my first gnu/linux OS!!!






those bastards buried it... ill never Forgive them!!









but it will live on in my heart, and my memories as an Epic OS. :dukedoge:






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Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
:patriot: you never forget your first

pram
Jun 10, 2001
you could also run mandrake straight from your windows 98 fat32 partition lol

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

pram posted:

you could also run mandrake straight from your windows 98 fat32 partition lol



hell yes

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Silver Alicorn posted:

:patriot: you never forget your first

this

Beamed
Nov 26, 2010

Then you have a responsibility that no man has ever faced. You have your fear which could become reality, and you have Godzilla, which is reality.


Smythe posted:

argghh i cant believe its gone!! my first gnu/linux OS!!!
those bastards buried it... ill never Forgive them!!
but it will live on in my heart, and my memories as an Epic OS. :dukedoge:
i'll go down with u smythe never forget mandark ah ha ha ah ha ha ha ha

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Beamed posted:

i'll go down with u smythe never forget mandark ah ha ha ah ha ha ha ha

hwat the hell??

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
symthe is a mod :holy:

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
one distro down, 9984 to go :twisted:

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
this was the bad kde one, right?

jimmyjams
Jan 10, 2001


King Kong of Megadongs
Gobblin' them mega schlongs
Makin' sure they mega long
Stroke' 'em if they mega strong
what is linux

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
fuckin weird-rear end french linux

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

The Management posted:

this was the bad kde one, right?

it was one of them

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
slackware, now there was a linux

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
caldera was pretty wild too

what if you, like, paid for linux?

pram
Jun 10, 2001

infernal machines posted:

slackware, now there was a linux

my first

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
i bought a slackware cd with a book about slackware from the bookstore i worked at at the time.

installed it on the pentium 233 i lifted from school

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

my first linus was gentoo and it took me like 6 days to compile everything and install it as an idiot high schooler. open office took 2 days to compile after that lol.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
funroll loops y'all

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast
this poo poo right here

pram
Jun 10, 2001
signature edition

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
i paid for a mandrake linux cd

didn’t it turn into mandriva?

and yes slackware was next but only as a gateway to

freeBSD

:smugmrgw:

imagine thinking a linux is superior to freebsd

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

I really wanted to like freeBSD but it never worked right on my hardware

Especially with cheap sata chipsets it would just randomly freeze

pram
Jun 10, 2001
i ran some web stuff on freebsd for a bit for shits and giggles but i got really tired of everything only quasi being supported

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast
the "tekneeks" ftp server i ran for nmp3s back way in the day ran on freebsd lol

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
freebsd wasnt fo loving around, it was for bizbness

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast
that ftp was the business tho

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

Sniep posted:

this poo poo right here



pram posted:

signature edition

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

Sniep posted:

the "tekneeks" ftp server i ran for nmp3s back way in the day ran on freebsd lol

bring it back

everything old is new again

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

The Management posted:

this was the bad kde one, right?

as opposed to what?

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

pram posted:

signature edition

yeah, but it's not signature edition steve ballmer

jimmyjams
Jan 10, 2001


King Kong of Megadongs
Gobblin' them mega schlongs
Makin' sure they mega long
Stroke' 'em if they mega strong
Microsoft LinuxOS X

Best Bi Geek Squid
Mar 25, 2016
wait ppl are saying that mandrake was good but it was a french (!) linux???

Rivethead
Feb 22, 2008

Best Bi Geek Squid posted:

wait ppl are saying that mandrake was good but it was a french (!) linux???

Straight from wikipedia:

"Mandriva S.A. was a public software company specializing in Linux and open-source software. Its corporate headquarters was in Paris, and it had development centers in Metz, France and Curitiba, Brazil"

There ya have it.

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Shaggar posted:

as opposed to what?

the ones that don't use kde

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

Shaggar posted:

as opposed to what?

the bad gnome one

jimmyjams
Jan 10, 2001


King Kong of Megadongs
Gobblin' them mega schlongs
Makin' sure they mega long
Stroke' 'em if they mega strong
linux, the operating system. designed by Reginald P. Linux

Tsed
Jan 30, 2008

aaaaag drugs





RIP Mandrake, the linux my dad bought whenever he thought he wanted to try a linux

at least you configured LILO right for me

Orcs and Ostriches
Aug 26, 2010


The Great Twist

a music folder and a music player? how decadent

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Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

i started with mandrake and red hat i can't remember which one i wnet for first, but i do have a lot of fond high school memories of trying to get sound to work on either/both

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