DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6.1, 1999
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wildflower@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 2024 09:07 next collapse

Xkill… Now that’s a name I havent heard in a long time :-)

lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network on 13 Jul 2024 10:53 next collapse

Or Netscape, for that matter

MonkderDritte@feddit.de on 13 Jul 2024 12:00 collapse

It’s still around and kicking unresponsive windows.

xorg-xkill on Arch, bound to alt+esc for me.

wildflower@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 2024 12:09 next collapse

It’s still around and kicking unresponsive windows.

I know, but I haven’t used it since I switched to Debian ;-)

disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml on 14 Jul 2024 17:17 collapse

KDE has it built in to default key binding of Ctrl + Meta + Esc helpful when in Wayland as xkill only works on X and xwayland apps.

hollyberries@programming.dev on 13 Jul 2024 09:28 next collapse

Ooh damn. Mandrake was my first distro, I remember being sooo excited when the CDs came in the mail. It was I think 4 discs?

The experience was absolutely not good lol. At the time I only had one computer (some eMachines something or other) and a 56k line that only went to 14400 or 2600 baud depending on the weather. My NIC wasn’t supported and after some banging my head on the desk I ended up going back to windows 98se after a few days because it was the family computer I messed up and caught sooo much flak for wiping.

Returned some years later when it was called Mandriva and had a better experience with a custom built AMD machine. The eMachines machine by then was still around as a network file server running a flavour of BSD that served media to my OG xbox played through XBMC (now Kodi).

Great post OP and thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Dungrad@feddit.org on 13 Jul 2024 10:41 collapse

“baud” 😭🥹

Brickardo@feddit.nl on 13 Jul 2024 09:55 next collapse

Gimp’s mascot is in some kind of hard drugs in that icon

FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee on 13 Jul 2024 10:30 next collapse

Looks like Crash Bandicoot on drugs

lessthanluigi@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 2024 10:38 collapse

Looks like an analog horror version of GIMP and I love it. It has that early 3D modeling program vibes, while not fully being 32-bit colors just yet.

seedoubleyou@infosec.pub on 13 Jul 2024 10:19 next collapse

i want those icons back

nyan@sh.itjust.works on 14 Jul 2024 14:36 collapse

I think that’s the old locolor icon theme. The version I have around is modified for TDE, but the original should exist somewhere out there (if OpenSUSE is still offering KDE3, then they probably have it).

Hupf@feddit.de on 13 Jul 2024 10:59 next collapse

Peak UI

LeFantome@programming.dev on 15 Jul 2024 00:09 collapse

I just said this above but this desktop is still available. It is called The Trinity Desktop now.

www.trinitydesktop.org

q4os.org

Damage@slrpnk.net on 13 Jul 2024 11:13 next collapse

Now that’s a flashback that works for me

NoisyFlake@lemm.ee on 13 Jul 2024 11:22 next collapse

Jesus, UI design was terrible back then. I’m not talking about technical limitations, I don’t need fancy transparency effects or something like that, but I’m sure that you could come up with something much better using the old UI libraries as long as you follow modern design principles.

zout@fedia.io on 13 Jul 2024 11:43 next collapse

That's probably why they're modern design principles, UI's were relatively new in 1999, and most people who used computers still knew how to work with the command line.

snake@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 2024 14:47 next collapse

Take that back

thayer@lemmy.ca on 14 Jul 2024 07:58 collapse

It’s probably just familiarity bias, but I really like the classic 3D design elements of the '90s desktops. I was a big fan of the Windows classic shell, NeXTSTEP and Openbox UIs. And even though I think both GNOME and KDE look fantastic today, I would still happily use a CDE-style UI if I could do so consistently.

krimson@feddit.nl on 13 Jul 2024 11:43 next collapse

Netscape ♥️

thayer@lemmy.ca on 14 Jul 2024 07:43 collapse

Felt like a pirate on the high seas! Those were the days…

Magister@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 2024 11:53 next collapse

I remember this! I’m French and remember reading Mandrake comics, so when Mandrake Linux came I needed to install it!

krolden@lemmy.ml on 13 Jul 2024 14:10 next collapse

Old KDE was great. So is new KDE though

LeFantome@programming.dev on 14 Jul 2024 23:56 collapse

You can still use old KDE. It is called Trinity now. It is a pretty decent desktop if you have an older machine.

krolden@lemmy.ml on 15 Jul 2024 01:32 collapse

Oh neat thanks

qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website on 13 Jul 2024 14:33 next collapse

Multiple desktops, 1999. What an amazing feature.

A quick web search suggests that macOS (then OS X) got this in 2007 (“Spaces”), and Windows not until 2015.

This alone makes this GUI more functional IMHO.

XTL@sopuli.xyz on 14 Jul 2024 04:37 collapse

Most Unix systems had it in CDE, 1993. Most also had it in whatever came before.

The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000, released in 1985.

The first implementation of virtual desktops for Unix was vtwm in 1990.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

It had been the expected default for pretty much an entire decade. Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll. Not sure if anyone really liked using that.

qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website on 14 Jul 2024 04:51 collapse

Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll.

I remember encountering that the first time I used Linux! Can’t recall personally finding a good use for it but…neat I guess?

Mr_nutter_butter@lemmy.world on 13 Jul 2024 14:55 next collapse

Seeing all these makes me wish for a classic Linux de that just gives you all of that again

jpablo68@infosec.pub on 14 Jul 2024 13:02 next collapse

Do you have the isos? I want to try this again

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 09 Aug 14:01 collapse

Hey, where do you find the ISOs for these old distros?