Installing Vintage Ubuntu – Hardy Heron!

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• Back in fhe good old days of gnome 2. That was so strange to hear that sound again

• Back when I was highschool. Ubuntu is still like a toy OS back then. But now, replacing the Windows on any Linux is absolutely worth it.

• Love classic Ubuntu, especially considering how much effort went into building free software back then. Nowadays everyone has their own distro but Ubuntu really did change the entire linux landscape and help get a lot of people including 14 year old me into open source. 12.04 was my first but I remember using 10.04 on a really really old system lol

• waths game is the 2nd you run?

• Man, that's a throw back, My first run with ubuntu was 7.04 IIRC. I got it on the mailed cd since we had DSL at 1.5 mbps shared across our family. I remember getting my multi desktop to be a moveable cube I could switch between.

• Nice T-Shirt

• Man I remember these "free shipping" Ubuntu CDs fondly, including the stickers they came with.

• This was worth it just to see an OG Ubuntu install disc 🫡

• I'm so glad that X1300 is getting used for this. I was expecting it to get modded by dosdude1 and slapped into a G3 for absolutely cursed upgraded graphics, but this is way way way more fun to see. Also glad to see that the system played nice with it! under Windows, you have to remove one of the OpenGL DLLs from a folder in order for stuff to work properly with that specific card to prevent green-screening… but it was also a common problem with others too. Fun to note that the fan in that is from a Quadro 600, and I had to modify the hell out of the back of it to get it to work in that heatsink, as the old fan failed and I was tight on time to get it working for my own needs before I moved onto something else. However, it seems to work just fine missing a couple of blades and still keeps the card relatively cool!

• Merry Christmas action retro all the best

• I would say all Ubuntu versions before unity have the best interface, UI design, and also system sounds. Also it was stable and also has the most authentic design in terms of wallpapers and theming.

• Socket 478 wasn't actually the last intel pga socket, that honour goes to socket G3, the last laptop socket (at least on the intel side). 478 was the last on the intel desktop though, unless someone used high end laptop parts in a desktop up to 2014.

• I started messing around with Linux with red hat 6 back in 1996

• Ubuntu was my intro to Linux around 2010

• Awesome Ubuntu 8.04 always functional with old Sony vaio PC looks like TV!

  I think with that old Sony vaio it can fully functional used for Bilbo Baggins write some new novel! 😅

• AHHH classic Ubuntu sounds are fantastic. I need to find a pack and put it on my laptop lol

• I remember this version of Ubuntu! I always felt so cool having an official disc of this and kubuntu

• "Vintage Linux" what are you talking about? Kernel 2.8 just came out, right?

• yah back in 2008 i build my first pc it was also a athlon 64 dual core @ 2.4ghz processor on a Asus M2A-VM motherboard and i done the extact samething i was like im not buying windows vista or 7 so i put ubuntu and many other linux distro… eve used open solaris and FreeBSD on that box as well and many other BSD systems like OpenBSD and NetBSD. and of course some hackintosh 😛

• i remember ubuntu 8.04 … i have used every single ubuntu release out there and yeah i must say from the first release and 8.04 nothing really change much lol

• That, is probably the ugliest computer I have ever seen, dude…

• Man I remember when this was new…..I’m old 🙁

• Man of all things, seeing Sauerbraten took me back hard! And I agree, the music is fantastic

• Why was the cpu part hidden.

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