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Caldera was the one with the graphical installer where you could play Tetris. I believe Mandrake was the one that was very similar to Red Hat (back around RH 5.
by jm4 7y ago
Caldera was the one with the graphical installer where you could play Tetris. I believe Mandrake was the one that was very similar to Red Hat (back around RH 5.2) but I remember it being a little easier to get working.
X was difficult. I remember sound being fairly easy if you had a sound blaster or turtle beach. The modem and PPP was where I always got hung up. I finally bought an external modem and that made things much easier.
- mixmastamyk 7y agoHmm, I didn't remember using PPP or a modem. Now, I remember why. At work we had a LAN. At home I had a Windows 98 box that talked to the internal modem and dialed up, which routed to a special orange ethernet cable with the wires crossed to an emachines box in the second bedroom. That one had dual boot linux on it for tinkering and thought it was directly on the internet. Good times.