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What were the best distros then?
by dmitryminkovsky 4y ago
What were the best distros then?
- dwater 4y agoWhen I was a CS major in 1999-2003, the big names I remember people using were RedHat, SUSE, Debian, and Mandrake was gaining market share for desktop use. The installfests I went to were all RedHat. There seem to be a lot of complaints here about RedHat after that era, but my memory is that RedHat was the main linux distro circa 2003.
- pianoben 4y agoMandrake! What a blast from the past. I also remember Gentoo and Slackware from around the same time, though apparently the latter predates the former by a decade or so.
- omoikane 4y agoI also remember Gentoo, mostly from here: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Gentoo-is-Rice.html https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/by-others/funroll-loops/Ge... https://web.archive.org/web/20170602132852/https://fun.irq.dk/funroll-loops.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170602132852/https://fun.irq.d...
- morelisp 4y agoI'm equal parts gobsmacked that funroll-loops is still around, and that it's thanks to Shlomi Fish who is still writing his creepy-ass fanfic.
- hnlmorg 4y agoSlackware in the 90s was amazing. Super stable. I think I continued to run Slackware until around 2002 to 2004 (can’t say for sure but it was to run an early(ish) version of Ableton for laptop DJing - as I was creating a concept set that just wouldn’t have been possible with vinyl alone), and wanted a distro that was a little lower maintenance given the advances to Linux at that point. I’ll always have a soft spot for Slackware even if I’d never dream of running it any longer.