Feeling A Bit Nostalgic About Dead Linux Distros DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Fruit
I get it. If you have a linux system you hold close and dear to your heart, you do not want to let that go. I have been using different kinds of distributions on and off, but for me I stopped distro hopping. Like you said there are less and less versions of linux and the userbase of the more spartan versions is generally only one and a half user making it to the distro anyway. So supporting your favourite distro isn't enough to cut it for most of them. Now I don't mean you should stop supporting your distro, but if there are not enough users to push the distro forward it will simply end in a crash and a bang like for Mandrake. For windows there are only two real versions / branches out there and then you have the new and old or unsupported versions out there. So why not give the main or older linux flavors some love before they get lost too...
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I get it. If you have a linux system you hold close and dear to your heart, you do not want to let that go. I have been using different kinds of distributions on and off, but for me I stopped distro hopping. Like you said there are less and less versions of linux and the userbase of the more spartan versions is generally only one and a half user making it to the distro anyway. So supporting your favourite distro isn't enough to cut it for most of them. Now I don't mean you should stop supporting your distro, but if there are not enough users to push the distro forward it will simply end in a crash and a bang like for Mandrake. For windows there are only two real versions / branches out there and then you have the new and old or unsupported versions out there. So why not give the main or older linux flavors some love before they get lost too...
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itech
I think Slackware's situation is the sadest I been on Slackware back in late 90's it used to be the number 1 hacker distro, at the time it was the best distro hands down 4 me i prefered it over mandrake and all the popular alternatives back then Debian was the Ubuntu it was the easy to use one... now i switched over to Debian because the other distros left slackware far behind even though its still alive its more like a crippled old man walking way behind all the other distros that surpassed it. Its no longer able to keep up with the community and it its own 1 man island which does not have enough support imo.... As far as window managers I dont care too much I just want something that works and good support like Gnome, open up a terminal and tmux is better then ANY window manager because it works straight in the term.
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I think Slackware's situation is the sadest I been on Slackware back in late 90's it used to be the number 1 hacker distro, at the time it was the best distro hands down 4 me i prefered it over mandrake and all the popular alternatives back then Debian was the Ubuntu it was the easy to use one... now i switched over to Debian because the other distros left slackware far behind even though its still alive its more like a crippled old man walking way behind all the other distros that surpassed it. Its no longer able to keep up with the community and it its own 1 man island which does not have enough support imo.... As far as window managers I dont care too much I just want something that works and good support like Gnome, open up a terminal and tmux is better then ANY window manager because it works straight in the term.
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migkillerphantom
My gut feel says that the -market- is gonna segment between binary repo rolling release distros based on Arch/pacman, and point release binary repo distros based on Ubuntu/apt (which will be the Debian of the future). Gentoo will stick around with a small share of people who want to compile everything from source. Everything else will die off, with small distros popping up and dying off every now and then, as usual.
There really is no sense in having an overly segmented market. Over time some locally optimal solutions emerge and propagate. Ubuntu is great for corpos and glowboys, Arch is great for casual IT-savvy users, Gentoo is great for autistic shut ins.
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My gut feel says that the -market- is gonna segment between binary repo rolling release distros based on Arch/pacman, and point release binary repo distros based on Ubuntu/apt (which will be the Debian of the future). Gentoo will stick around with a small share of people who want to compile everything from source. Everything else will die off, with small distros popping up and dying off every now and then, as usual.
There really is no sense in having an overly segmented market. Over time some locally optimal solutions emerge and propagate. Ubuntu is great for corpos and glowboys, Arch is great for casual IT-savvy users, Gentoo is great for autistic shut ins.
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Gary
I had the last releases of Mandriva back in the day, and derived distros Mageia and PCLinuxOS still exist, and are among my current top 3. I liked Sabayon, especially their musical bootload, but not enough to keep it as a daily driver. Gentoo itself pissed me off for other reasons. I miss MEPIS (first install was 6.5) though it still lives on in MX. I liked Zenwalk, miss them too. While I never really used Absolute Linux (a Slack derivative), I liked keeping a LiveCD of it on hand. Agree 100% with the decreased diversity in distros now.
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I had the last releases of Mandriva back in the day, and derived distros Mageia and PCLinuxOS still exist, and are among my current top 3. I liked Sabayon, especially their musical bootload, but not enough to keep it as a daily driver. Gentoo itself pissed me off for other reasons. I miss MEPIS (first install was 6.5) though it still lives on in MX. I liked Zenwalk, miss them too. While I never really used Absolute Linux (a Slack derivative), I liked keeping a LiveCD of it on hand. Agree 100% with the decreased diversity in distros now.
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cpcnw
Yep, remember Mandrake alright. Was solid and worked on everything for some years. You could live boot and create another CD from the running disc. My mind was blown! First distro I tried was Slackware however I chose that over Yggdrasil as it was supposed to be easier to install. I remember being asked if I wanted to install a font for the Kilngon language lol! So this would be mid 90's I think. Still messin about with Linux today. Someday I'll get some work done lol! Slack must be one of the longest running distro's I reckon?
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Yep, remember Mandrake alright. Was solid and worked on everything for some years. You could live boot and create another CD from the running disc. My mind was blown! First distro I tried was Slackware however I chose that over Yggdrasil as it was supposed to be easier to install. I remember being asked if I wanted to install a font for the Kilngon language lol! So this would be mid 90's I think. Still messin about with Linux today. Someday I'll get some work done lol! Slack must be one of the longest running distro's I reckon?
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Artur
Slackware is missed. Rpm mandrake was one of them and I do remember it. Mandrake was my first distro. I have tried Debian but failed installation process and had to use Mint instead.not sure about Gentoo... How is suse doing these days? Fedora core?
Ubuntu was marked as not free by prophet RMS and the only alternative is traditional Debian. I think Debian is only ancient distro around and it has potential to stay. What about knoppix? Is that still alive? What happens to creator of Slackware?
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Slackware is missed. Rpm mandrake was one of them and I do remember it. Mandrake was my first distro. I have tried Debian but failed installation process and had to use Mint instead.not sure about Gentoo... How is suse doing these days? Fedora core?
Ubuntu was marked as not free by prophet RMS and the only alternative is traditional Debian. I think Debian is only ancient distro around and it has potential to stay. What about knoppix? Is that still alive? What happens to creator of Slackware?
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That
Many people said it before but I am still gonna say it again, the problem is fragmentation.
We are a tiny community compared to Windows & Mac users and if we don't unite our resources, this will keep happening.
There is no one perfect OS, but we gotta make certain compromises and come together otherwise the cycle will continue.
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Many people said it before but I am still gonna say it again, the problem is fragmentation.
We are a tiny community compared to Windows & Mac users and if we don't unite our resources, this will keep happening.
There is no one perfect OS, but we gotta make certain compromises and come together otherwise the cycle will continue.
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R.a.
Mempis, corel and xandros comes to mind when it comes to my early Linux desktop. I started on Debain and Red hat before they got bought up and started charging. Suse Linux, it's still alive but who uses it? Suse 9 was great. The YAST configuration manager was awesome. One of the best tools before Ubuntu.
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Mempis, corel and xandros comes to mind when it comes to my early Linux desktop. I started on Debain and Red hat before they got bought up and started charging. Suse Linux, it's still alive but who uses it? Suse 9 was great. The YAST configuration manager was awesome. One of the best tools before Ubuntu.
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contrast
Because I only use Ubuntu based distros, I'm not really nostalgic about any distributions. However I am nostalgic/yearning for discontinued software. I had to painfully build from source software that had been discontinued since 2013-2015.
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Because I only use Ubuntu based distros, I'm not really nostalgic about any distributions. However I am nostalgic/yearning for discontinued software. I had to painfully build from source software that had been discontinued since 2013-2015.
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Distant
and thats a flaw of using foss software/oses.No one is obliged to continue on working on them / maintaining them so from one day to the other what you use daily can be gone.(i use arch btw :))
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and thats a flaw of using foss software/oses.No one is obliged to continue on working on them / maintaining them so from one day to the other what you use daily can be gone.(i use arch btw :))
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