Redhat Linux 5.2 on 25yr old PC

I still like seeing all that stuff when I boot, that's why I always remove the splash screen option from the grub config file.

Thanks, it was good walk down memory lane.

two pentium pro processors on one motherboard computer system one of the list of systems to choose from unix freebsd 2.1.6 freebsd 4.5 linux red hat 4.0 enterprise linux red hat 7.2 enigma is the best computer systems for retro computer

Oh this is great. It takes me back to being 15 with an IBM Thinkpad 166mhz computer, and my parallel Zip 100 Drive. And the crappy neomagix video card that finally got the X driver fixed. I felt so cool back then. I setup a webserver for the school district, and it worked fine for years. 8 year uptime. I later ran a factory with RHEL servers. KDE was the best desktop.

In those days you got something for your money. Today, subscribe and pay. 💰 😢 I owned some RH stocks in those days. I think I actually owned an escom ….

My first distro was RedHat 7.1, I was blown away by how flexible Linux desktop was.

My first version of Linux was this. I bought it at a used book store in 1998. I remember XFree86 wasn't working. To fix it I had to get online which meant setting up a PPP dialer... Took me a week to get everything figured out. But hey, it's my career now!

For a 98 system it might even be a little slow. I think I bought an AMD K6 200 MHz with a 3 GB HDD in 97 for comparison.

This was the exact version of Red Hat that I started my Linux journey. Since I only had one computer at the time, a Toshiba laptop, I installed this as a dual boot with Windows. As I recall, it took me two days to do the installation since I had to resize my Windows partition with Partition Magic, then create all of the partitions I would need for the install. I had never used fdisk in my life. This was a daunting task. Installing wasn't too bad with Anaconda, but figuring out the sound card really proved to be difficult and time consuming. I did end up, a week or two later, with a fully functioning dual boot system. I felt like a tech guru!!!!!

From that time in 1997 or '98 until around 2013 when Ubuntu forced Unity onto us, I had at least a dual boot Linux install. From about 2008 to 2013 I had Linux exclusively - no Windows in sight. I then slipped back into Windows when I bought a new Laptop.

About 18 months ago, when Windows started hounding everyone to upgrade to 11, I decided to go back to Linux. I am now exclusively Linux again. Manjaro on this laptop, MX on my other laptop, and Gecko rolling and CachyOS dual booting on my desktop. I even have Bionic Puppy on the old Asus Aspire One that I used to run Ubuntu on in the early 2000's.

Thanks for this video, brought back some good memories. Did anyone else watch The Screen Savers religiously?

The crazy part is, a modern x86 linux kernel today should still run all of those crazy programs from back then. Its the userspace libraries that break everything, as seen with the little bit of dependency hell near the end of this video.

two pentium pro processors on one motherboard, ati mach64 pci or nvidia stg2000 graphics card, linux red hat 4.0 enterprise

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I've been using various different flavors of Linux on and off for the last twenty-three years and counting however I've always returned to either an Enterprise level Operating system, I settled on RHEL because even though they pure Debian or a RedHaztt respin like Fedora or CentOS that is until a few years ago when I discovered and fell in love with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation now I know what everyone is thinking why would a relative newcomer to the FOSS/BSD and Linux community settle ors of Linux on and off for the last twenty-three years and counting however I've always returned to either on an Enterprise level Operating system, I settled on RHEL because even though they still use the three series kernels, I liked the fact that they prefer the slow and steady wins the race approach instead of a Distribution like Manjaro which takes the fast and I think very reckless a[pproach of being "bleeding edge". By the way, RedHat is owned by IBM "Big Blue" who has managed to port RHEL to their power series of Mainframes which if you ask me was a great purchase decision on the acquisitions teams' part at IBM.

good memories!!!

I just love the chapter name "Impressing Your Friends with RPM".

Your stash of pc's is like a candy store to me, I discover this video quite late, but thank you, My first Linux Distro was the Red Hat 5.2 "Apollo" and have found memories of it, specially to put to run a S3 Savage 3D "AGP" to work on my Pentium II 233 system, it was quite.. a challenge, but my favorite of them all is Red Hat 6.2 "Zoot", stable, mature and quite potent, at "Zoot" I dropped the S3 savage 3D for a magnificent, high quality, 2D Millenium 2.

Can't get Red Hat Linux from WinWorld to progress passed the formatting. Blue screen!

I had the same experience with the same computer. We can do a lot with few resources. I used Next too

Not sure why I decided to look up RedHat 5.2 after all this years. It was my first distro back in 1998. Loved the trip down memory lane. Thank you.

Yes, very much this. I dream of running e13 with its default theme on current hardware - one of these days...

How to install without IDE SCSI CD-ROM, pelase
I recently used an old computer. But he doesn't have a CD player. How to do! ! ~
I've looked at some articles and they all suggest using a virtual machine. Is there any other way to install , Please

This brings back memories. Computing was fun then. Tons of variety. Unixes, Linux, even NT on DEC Alphas. Tons of hardware. Now things are a bit boring.

RetroSpector - more videos of old Linux on old hardware please. Older distros (Slackware 1.1, Debian Buzz) on some of the more challenging hardware (Sound Blaster AWE 32/64, 3Com 509c, 3Dfx ...) is an area no-one else on YT has attempted.

Where do you find your computers? I'm also in the Netherlands and I'd really love to own a good 486

it's kinda crazy that enlightenment is considered a lightweight desktop now, but back in the day it was the heaviest eye candy-est one.

YT algorithms are crazy, offer the same video I watched not once and even commented under many times I guess. 🤣🤣 But see how the mentality changes... in our late teens and early 20s this Enlightenment looked super hacker-ish cool woow! But in my 40s if somebody offers me to use this cool WM - I would rather format his intentions with heavy IBM Model M.... 🤣🤣well I don't have model M. but would send those intentions to visit a psychiatric clinic. Pity I had only 1 CD of the 5.2 set and din't have any Internet. Anyway the E screenshots were published in one of IT magazines I used to buy every week.

What about KDE? It's a really nice desktop envirment, even that is old, it's pretty nice

That Pentium 100 Mhz was much faster than an AMD 5x86 133 Mhz, I used to play Genecystxxx back then and the Pentium was able to play it with sound and raster effects, the AMD skipped frames without anything making the gameplay uncomfortable, ugly.

just switch to vi

Super nostalgic. Thank you :)

Red Hat was a great distro up to 6.5.

Were there newer versions of Red Hat that worked with Pentium I 150mhz and 256ram specs for pc or laptop.?

I ran this same OS and the. The Alpha version for my DEC Alpha workstation.

Before the "download the manual" that we get now.

Too bad linux community was focusing on themes and visual candy stuffs, instead of focusing on creating a unified platform that's easy to maintain by fickle community.

Windows XP had themes and transparency stuff too. You know else it had? Easy to learn environment to work in without constantly worrying about broken dependencies or an incorrect console command killing your system.

Linux is a joke.

i still like enlightenment also as a youngster i love enlightenment :P

lol i like that the monitor says "low radiation" as monitors now are HIGH radiation.

Do you know that redhat doesn’t have all redhat versions from alpha on up..

Ah the good old days.

I picked up this exact same box when at the local uni book store circa 1998 . It was my first Linux experience. My Windows 98 PC kept crashing when I had a thesis to write and I was attracted to the promise of a stable operating system.

Fairly new part time Linux user (2015-2018, returned this year), vintage Linux kind of interests me for some reason.

20 years ago ....

I wanted to cry as soon as I saw netscape. The time is so brutal.

I used RHL towards the end of the decade (90s), but my first incursion was Slackware (in a 486 Olivetti). My last chapter was Yellow Dog Linux on a Bondy blue iMac, around 2006 or 7. The system I liked most was a rejected (at the office) Compaq Contura 486 SX @ 25 Mhz and just 4 Mb of RAM: I managed to install in it Slackware Linux, even with a small LaTeX system, and I could write and send emails with a text-only application and a Motorola modem (around 2000). But I really like best OS/2, which I still run on my ThinkPad 380D.

God... My childhood experience was like this mostly because my dad was both a conspiracy theorist and engineer lol

Besides all the rest, the voice of author is very therapeutical. I often listen his videos not only to learn but to meditate and calm down!