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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Installing Linux Like It's 1999 (makertube.net)

submitted 2 months ago by bababu to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What has your experience with Linux been like so far? How long has been your Linux journey? Mine began while I was studying computer science, and I've been in love with Linux since.

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wow. I had this on my removable hard drive for our operating systems class in college back in 2000.

[–] bababu 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seeing all the issues in the video, I feel like my experience with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx as my first self-installed Linux OS was much smoother :D

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah. Ubuntu really simplified everything.

My first distro on my own PC was Mandrake. I don't know how many times I had to reinstall it because of my fuckups.

Two years later I was compiling my own kernel with the source code of special modules that I had downloaded for my NVidia card that had composite video input.

I've never had to compile a kernel since Ubuntu. I completely forgot to be honest.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

me too. it had some unspecified issue with xorg that prevented bootup and i was never able to fix.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Internet access was more complicated back then. If you didn't have a second computer or couldn't dual boot into a working OS it was a big problem. And there wasn't a lot of Linux users back then either.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

yea no way i would have been willing or even able to troubleshoot it at that time.

i just gave up until ubuntu came around many years later and just worked.