Good old days of Linux. What users miss from the old Linux distros.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-things-i-miss-about-old-school-linux/2309 Redhat Linux 6.2. The thing I miss the most about Linux is the coolness factor of having an operating system that...
View ArticleUseful old C code of mine. Might be useful for reference.
This is a nice little program I wrote ages ago. /* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the...
View ArticleThe old computers that led us into the computing revolution. The 10,000...
This is the PDP-8 computer. This beast had 4 Kilobytes of RAM and was quite the purchase back in the day. You could program in FORTRAN on this machine, entering code with a teletype input. The more...
View ArticleUbuntu wallpaper archive. This is very cool if you want an old Ubuntu...
This website: http://ubuntu.ecchi.ca/wallpapers/ is an archive of all wallpapers used by the Ubuntu distribution from Ubuntu 4.10 “Warty Warthog” to Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat”. Very cool if you...
View ArticleSome Linux desktop screenshots from the old days of Linux.
This website has some awesome screen-shots of old Linux desktops from 1999. This really takes me back, Linux and UNIX desktops in the olden days looked a lot different than they do now, it is good news...
View ArticleComplete pack of Windows wallpapers for your Linux desktop.
If you are intending to theme your Linux desktop to look like Windows, then these wallpapers will be very useful to you:...
View ArticleHow the design of the user interface has changed from the olden days of the...
The computer user interface has come a long way since the early days of the computer. This has not always been for the best. The iMac screen below shows a good example of UI design. This is a very...
View ArticleWindows XP still used around the world despite the security risks.
Windows XP, the venerable and trusty Windows operating system from Microsoft is still in use around the world. Despite the fact that Munich has switched their computers to the Linux operating system,...
View ArticleAnother nostalgia posting. Some pictures of very old computing treasures from...
Old AOL login window. Dialing up to an America Online system to get connected to the Internet. The old OS/2 Warp operating system from IBM. This was a very good operating system back in the day....
View ArticleVery old computing advertisements and images.
Some very old computer advertisements and images. This is an advertisement against piracy. 50,000 dollar 5 megabyte hard disk drive being loaded onto a truck. Windows 3.1 disk space indicator. This was...
View ArticleLinux in the old days. A look back at some classic Linux desktops.
The KDE 2.2.2 Linux desktop. A classic look and feel. The old Debian 3.0 distribution with the KDE 2.0 desktop environment. Ubuntu 5.10 Gnome desktop. The good old days of Gnome. An old Linux FVWM...
View ArticleObscure retro hardware and operating systems. A look into the past.
UnixWare 7.1.1. This is an old UNIX based operating system, this was released by Xinuos and is a commercial product that is intended for business usage. Support and downloads are available here:...
View ArticleReminiscing on Doom and older computers in the modern age.
Just saw a cool Let’s Play Doom video on Youtube that features E2M4 and the guy playing it is like he is playing it for the first time, it is incredible to watch the game played is if it is being...
View ArticleComputing in the 1990s versus 2017.
Computing in the 1990`s was much different to the experience we have today. The software we used like Internet Explorer and Netscape was not very secure. Running Windows `95 or `98 did not give a great...
View ArticleHistorical Linux oddities from the past.
Interesting Linux oddities Linux has had quite a few odd programs and oddities released for it. One was a process management system that used a modified copy of Xdoom, a Doom source port, to manage...
View ArticleOutstanding Linux bug still not fixed after 13 years. We need to address this...
There is still a very old Linux bug that has still not been fixed. Microsoft has a dominating market share. This is an Ubuntu bug reported by Mark Shuttleworth in 2004 and has still not been fixed....
View ArticleHow the Internet has changed in all this time.
The Internet in the early days was very different from the one we now use. The web browsers we used were very primitive and there was no real adblock in place, this meant that the web was full of...
View ArticleSome cool footage and images of old operating systems.
Installing BeOS on a modern computer. This is a very cool alternative operating system. The screenshot below, shows an Apple II machine connecting to a Debian server over a network connection. This...
View ArticleOld but cool finds on the Internet.
I have found this awesome web page. This allows the user to build and order a flash new PC. http://people.virginia.edu/~zl5y/cgi-bin/Store/web_store.cgi. This PC would run any office productivity or...
View ArticleVery old but interesting UNIX and Linux documentation.
Very old, but precious UNIX documentation from the 1970`s. These would be very interesting reading for someone interested in UNIX. 1972 UNIX programming manual....
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