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X11 was a clown show for a longgg time. Remember manually tweaking mode lines? For the longest time, my main Linux system was a Slackware box with almost every
by icedchai 3y ago
X11 was a clown show for a longgg time. Remember manually tweaking mode lines?
For the longest time, my main Linux system was a Slackware box with almost everything rebuilt and reinstalled by hand. I still remember the a.out -> ELF upgrade and having to rebuild a bunch of libraries. And rebuilding the kernel, of course.
- mcculley 3y ago> Remember manually tweaking mode lines? I put my first Linux box together in late 1992 using SLS and a fixed frequency monitor. I got the mode line wrong and the magic black smoke escape from the monitor.
- pjmlp 3y agoYes, and only being able to do 800x600 on a 1024x768 display. That was my first Linux distribution, Slackware 2.0 with 1.0.99 kernel, if I got the numbers right. I already used Xenix and DG/UX by then, and it was a way to have UNIX at home.