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

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From	"25B.Z969" <25B.Z969@noda.net>
Date	2022-08-12 00:43 -0400
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On 8/11/22 9:26 AM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> 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.

   Neither did that RH distro ... unless you went through
   hoops to install it.

   By that timeframe, I don't think you could sell a system
   with absolutely no hope of a GUI. People were already
   used to Winders and Apple.

> Looking for "tiny" "Linux" and "floppy" there seems to be a recent
> development called Floppinux.
> 
> Now found what I had. It was tomsrtbt.

   You found that on a retail shelf ???

   2002 ... and the wiki says you could only create
   a floppy of it using DOS tweaks so you could
   pack 1.7mb on a DSDD floppy.

   Anyway, yea, a zero-GUI Linux, just the REAL basics,
   can be impressively small. Now "useful" ... that's
   another question.

   Most Unix-like systems in the late 90s came on
   several floppies ... load one, then the next,
   then the next, howevermany it took. Not too
   long back I installed several DOS-era compilers
   on a DOS VM - one required seven "disks".

   Alas before Linus, anything "Unix-like" was normally
   too $$$ for ordinary individuals. XENIX, SCO ....

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