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IceWM Screenshots Collection (https://ice-wm.org/screenshots/ https://ice-wm.org/screenshots/)

by tux 6y ago

rahimiali 6y ago
I see two instances of the rootcow in these sceeenshots. I had assumed rootcow was specifically a Berkeley thing circa the 90s. Was it a broader phenomenon?
- Lammy 6y ago
  I imagine that person's shell profile pipes fortune to cowsay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
  - rahimiali 6y ago
    Indeed the link to the archived web page from that wiki page confirms this originated in Berkeley (the link to tmonroe’s page). It’s nice to see that it made it widely.
bitexploder 6y ago
Slackware.. my first Linux district. In 1995. Classic shell font. I miss those days, but modern Linux is amazing.
- koolba 6y ago
  They say you never forget your first, but I’m not sure that’s true anymore as the combination of cloud VMs and graphical installers have reduced nearly all Linux installs to a couple mouse clicks.
  - Shared404 6y ago
    Well, rest assured that for at least some noobies they will still remember their first. For me, it was ~ 2 - 3 years ago, I had just bought myself a new laptop. I knew what Linux was from some experience with a raspberry pi, and wanted to try it on my main machine, so I installed Fedora as a dual boot. I've only booted Windows on that(this) machine twice, and no longer have it installed. Edit: The installer itself was graphical and mouse clicks, but X11 did not play well with optimus graphics at the time, so I found myself offline using man pages and tmux very quickly. Daily drove TUI only for a couple weeks before I sat down and fixed X. Hopefully this counts.
    - bitexploder 6y ago
      Everyone has to start somewhere. No Linux purity guardians here :)
  - tux 6y ago
    This depends on which distro you are installing. There is still many CLI based installations. Arch Linux for example.
- deepakhj 6y ago
  My first too. I remember installing Linux with 30 or so floppy disks. I also use to go through and configure the kernel and build it myself because I was into over clocking at the time.
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op03 6y ago
Whats happening in the FileZilla screenshot?
geokon 6y ago
To bad none of these are paired with themes/configurations. Anyone have any idea how the 7th one is configured? https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2936638/44629544-3e05bd80-a90e-11e8-8a55-27a8a3f0d185.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2936638/44629544-3... Look pretty good...
- pantulis 6y ago
  I think it was one of the included themes, maybe nice or nice2. I loved the "Motif" one, though.

IceWM Screenshots Collection (https://ice-wm.org/screenshots/ https://ice-wm.org/screenshots/)

by tux 6y ago

IceWM Screenshots Collection (https://ice-wm.org/screenshots/ https://ice-wm.org/screenshots/)

I see two instances of the rootcow in these sceeenshots. I had assumed rootcow was specifically a Berkeley thing circa the 90s. Was it a broader phenomenon?

Lammy 6y ago
I imagine that person's shell profile pipes fortune to cowsay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
- rahimiali 6y ago
  Indeed the link to the archived web page from that wiki page confirms this originated in Berkeley (the link to tmonroe’s page). It’s nice to see that it made it widely.

bitexploder 6y ago

Slackware.. my first Linux district. In 1995. Classic shell font. I miss those days, but modern Linux is amazing.

koolba 6y ago
They say you never forget your first, but I’m not sure that’s true anymore as the combination of cloud VMs and graphical installers have reduced nearly all Linux installs to a couple mouse clicks.
- Shared404 6y ago
  Well, rest assured that for at least some noobies they will still remember their first. For me, it was ~ 2 - 3 years ago, I had just bought myself a new laptop. I knew what Linux was from some experience with a raspberry pi, and wanted to try it on my main machine, so I installed Fedora as a dual boot. I've only booted Windows on that(this) machine twice, and no longer have it installed. Edit: The installer itself was graphical and mouse clicks, but X11 did not play well with optimus graphics at the time, so I found myself offline using man pages and tmux very quickly. Daily drove TUI only for a couple weeks before I sat down and fixed X. Hopefully this counts.
  - bitexploder 6y ago
    Everyone has to start somewhere. No Linux purity guardians here :)
- tux 6y ago
  This depends on which distro you are installing. There is still many CLI based installations. Arch Linux for example.
deepakhj 6y ago
My first too. I remember installing Linux with 30 or so floppy disks. I also use to go through and configure the kernel and build it myself because I was into over clocking at the time.

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op03 6y ago

Whats happening in the FileZilla screenshot?

geokon 6y ago

To bad none of these are paired with themes/configurations. Anyone have any idea how the 7th one is configured? https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2936638/44629544-3e05bd80-a90e-11e8-8a55-27a8a3f0d185.png https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2936638/44629544-3... Look pretty good...

pantulis 6y ago
I think it was one of the included themes, maybe nice or nice2. I loved the "Motif" one, though.