Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular

From	Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular
Date	2022-08-11 09:26 -0400
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On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:16:48 -0400, 25B.Z969 wrote:
>
> On 8/10/22 1:16 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>
>> Strangely I not get any eye-candy, like animated windows in MATE,
>> although the function is checked.
>
>   Hmm ... an obvious defect. They'll fix it.

I doubt. I may just miss a package or messed up a config.

[...]

>> I try to remember what "Linux on a floppy" I used around 2003/2004.a
>
>   They were selling an early Red Hat WAY back on retail
>   shelves. VERY early, crude, Xorg GUI. Really fun getting
>   the mouse and keyboard to work right. A SUSE appeared
>   a year or two later, green box with Gecko. It was much
>   better. I used SUSE/OpenSUSE for a long time (still do
>   to some extent) - a "Cadillac" distro. Recently it
>   screwed me by taking away some common hardware-info-related
>   commands and using an inferior version of ffmpeg. Still
>   have an OpenSUSE on a VM, but ...

The floppy Linux I meant had no GUI.

Looking for "tiny" "Linux" and "floppy" there seems to be a recent
development called Floppinux.

Now found what I had. It was tomsrtbt.
-- 
Andreas

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