This popped up on YT. He installs Arch 0.1 from 2002 on an old NEC. That machine looks like the ones I used in the computer science classes I took in college back in the 90's. Except those booted off a network drive.
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Re: Arch 0.1
Arch used to be a cool little DIY distro. It was probably 2004'ish for me, but I tried Arch when it was like that. Not long after that, we had an article on BBF that SageCSS wrote for setting up Arch. That looks like Windowmaker on the screen, I haven't seen that in a long time. (It wasn't one that I cared much for... felt awkward. I liked AfterStep much better. Somewhat similar but different). Last I remember, Slackware still carries Windowmaker.
Most people wouldn't know where Arch came from. You see them crowing in forums and shit and once in a while someone reminds them. "You weren't around when Arch was really cool!" etc. I mean, Arch is cool but it's a monster now, with everything linked against everything bloat and systemd nazism.
Most people wouldn't know where Arch came from. You see them crowing in forums and shit and once in a while someone reminds them. "You weren't around when Arch was really cool!" etc. I mean, Arch is cool but it's a monster now, with everything linked against everything bloat and systemd nazism.
Re: Arch 0.1
Yep, Slackware still carries Windowmaker. (Blackbox too... even though it's been superseded by fluxbox)
Index of /slackware/slackware64-current/source/xap/windowmaker
WindowMaker-0.96.0.tar.xz 07-Aug-2023 13:03 2.1M
WindowMaker-extra-0.1.tar.xz 01-Apr-1999 14:30 198K <--- LOL
Shows you its age, and how long Slackware has been carrying it. (though windowmaker itself was actually a current tarball release, 0.96.0 in Aug. 2023... I'd check their git repo for more recent commits but it's not answering... or.cz, a 503 error)
Index of /slackware/slackware64-current/source/xap/windowmaker
WindowMaker-0.96.0.tar.xz 07-Aug-2023 13:03 2.1M
WindowMaker-extra-0.1.tar.xz 01-Apr-1999 14:30 198K <--- LOL
Shows you its age, and how long Slackware has been carrying it. (though windowmaker itself was actually a current tarball release, 0.96.0 in Aug. 2023... I'd check their git repo for more recent commits but it's not answering... or.cz, a 503 error)
Re: Arch 0.1
Back then (Linux 2.2 and 2.4), I could run through menuconfig in like 2 minutes and configure everything. Now, you wouldn't want to be sitting there at a console during an installation doing it from scratch, it takes like 3 passes through assloads of menus before I'd get all the unwanted dependencies turned off.
That was a little more hands on back then, more so than now, an Arch install.
Notice how xfree86-4.2.0.pkg.tar.gz was ONE package (that took a couple of seconds to install, even on an old Pentium II with IDE), not a thousand little ones
Good old xf86config script, that had no choice but to work back then. I remembered stepping through that in Slackware for the first time, it was more reliable than the way the other distros like Mandrake were doing it.
There are things I miss about the "good" old days (though it has come a long way since then).
That was a little more hands on back then, more so than now, an Arch install.
Notice how xfree86-4.2.0.pkg.tar.gz was ONE package (that took a couple of seconds to install, even on an old Pentium II with IDE), not a thousand little ones
Good old xf86config script, that had no choice but to work back then. I remembered stepping through that in Slackware for the first time, it was more reliable than the way the other distros like Mandrake were doing it.
There are things I miss about the "good" old days (though it has come a long way since then).