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Those memories, KDE 1 was my first glimpse into the world of Linux on SuSE Linux 6.3 I think. Many things were weird too me though, Kppp for example didn't sup
by tehabe 10y ago
Those memories, KDE 1 was my first glimpse into the world of Linux on SuSE Linux 6.3 I think.
Many things were weird too me though, Kppp for example didn't support ISDN4Linux. Also connection on demand was not perfect, it would connect without the need. But that is another topic for another time.
- Zardoz84 10y agoSuSE 5.3.1 had it with GNOME 1 (and FVWM 95 and Enlightment) Funny thing. You can run GNOME 1 over KDE 1
- tehabe 10y agoI also remembered incorrectly, it was SuSE 6.1, the first one with Linux 2.2. It also came with WordPerfect 8 but I don't know if I actually used it.
- Zardoz84 10y agoI have yet the 6 cdroms . It was my first Linux/Unix experience. I remember trying RedHat and Debian, aparte of SuSE and I found at these moment SuSE YaST installer was the BEST installer (I was 14 years old ~> 98's)
- digi_owl 10y agoIirc, Gnome didn't have a dedicated WM for the longest time. for a while Rasterman (of Enlightenment fame) was working for Red Hat and Gnome used Enlightenment as their WM. But there came to a disagreement between Rasterman and the Gnome devs about where things were going, and he left Red Hat and started working on turning Enlightenment into a full DE. Not long after i think we started seeing various WMs being bundled with Gnome, culminating in some that used composition and OpenGL to render the desktops as sides of a cube. After that it seems that everyone involved with the major DEs got hooked on eyecandy.
- chriswarbo 10y agoI've been using Linux exclusively since ~2001, and I used to keep going back to either E16, or Gnome+E16. It's fast, unobtrusive and strikes a nice balance between customisation/eye-candy and minimalism. These days I use tiling WMs (mostly XMonad), but if I were to go back to stacked then I'd probably end up with E16 after a while :)
- pdkl95 10y ago> It's fast, unobtrusive I'm still using an $ECONFDIR that was initially created in ~1997 for exactly that reason. Everything else is either missing features (windowmaker) or slow (everything else).
- inDigiNeous 10y agoOh man. I had already forgot about ISDN4Linux. Spent two weeks just getting the ISDN working, writing scripts, compiling the kernel. Imagine nowadays spending 2 weeks to get online, reading HOWTOs, having to write shell scripts (to dial the ISP and hangup) just to get basic functionality ..oh yeah that's wifi and linux these days ;)
- majewsky 10y agoIs wifi still that bad, though? I (personally) haven't seen any wifi problems in the wild for at least 5 years.
- gtirloni 10y agoI just spent 3 hours this week fighting the iwlwifi driver and my Intel 7265-D card. Turned out power saving mode was causing all the drops (iwconfig $iface power off).
- neppo 10y agofunnily, I had the same network dropping issue due to wifi power saving on windows 10
- tehabe 10y agoDepends on your environment, I have a stupid wall between my router and my desk. The signal is losing ~20 dBm going through that wall. That sucks.
- majewsky 10y agoWell, at least Linux is not to blame for that. Or so I hope. °^_^
- inDigiNeous 10y agoJust got a new work machine, trying to get external ASUS usb wifi working, no luck, drops the signal like in 1-3 minutes after going live. Tested all the power saving tricks and so on, no luck, gave up.
- frik 10y agoI had a "WinModem" which caused initially a lot of troubles and started with the same distro version.