The First Version Of Ubuntu
Today I am taking a look at the first version of Ubuntu ever publicly released. Does it hold up? Well let’s take a look
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:13 Virtualbox Hijinks
1:39 Switching back to VMWare
2:36 The Desktop
3:21 AisleRiot Solitare
3:31 Ataxx
4:15 Five Or More
4:56 Four In A Row
6:39 Gnometris
7:27 Lagno
7:43 Klotski
8:48 Gnome Mines
10:32 GNibbles
12:07 Same GNOME
13:45 GNOME Stones
14:44 Tali
15:27 Tetravex
17:31 GIMP
18:37 GAIM
19:42 Internet
23:26 Conclusion
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I use Linux exclusively now but I remember trying to install THAT version of Ubuntu and as a MS user,I was totally lost. I guess either I have gotten smarter in my old age or Linux has become more user friendly.
why in gods name did the gnometris creators put 11 columns
QEMU + KVM with virt-manager is the best virtualization solution for Linux. (Except when you need hardware acceleration without a second GPU)
next up try the first release of debian so you go even older
Well this is strange, first version is 4.2!, what happened to 1.0, anyway this ver, 4.2, way too many silly games, but an interesting look anyway
The only positive thing I can say about this video is the segmentation that allows me to click through it to see what you're looking at, which is: Gnome Games.
If you looked at literally any other Linux distribution of that era, you would have seen the exact same thing. I'm not sure if Sun opensourced Solaris at that time, but that too would have looked the same and had the same calculator and games.
What a waste of time.
132MB ram used… oof modern distros (like 10x the ram use or more is the norm now) And Ubuntu was a pretty heavy distro even at launch compared to other distros like slackware or arch that I was using (Arch could boot with 16MBram to the command prompt and a desktop in a few more tens of MB definiitely would work fine with 64MB + swap back then).
While it is first Ubuntu version, you have to remember that Ubuntu at that point was just re-branded Debian (a fork). Debian was already 10 years old. And yes there is a package manager, the APT, just no "apt" command because that is fairly new. apt-get is a wrapper for dpkg (both should exists at this point). Imagine that Debian is going to release apt 3.0 very soon. These early versions are like nearly 1:1 to Debian with few config changes and different take on free software. In fact there used to be meme that "Ubuntu is for people who don't know how to configure Debian".
Also the Firefox isn't beta here, it's been years stable when you see it here. The versioning just starts from 0 meaning first release. On top of that, it is based on another project (Firebird) that turned into Phoenix but had to re-brand into Firefox, so it's not even first first version.
Soo at this point it is just a Debian with Gnome with Ubuntu wallpaper.
Wasn't it apt-get instead of apt back then? I remember using Ubuntu 9.10 (my first Linux experience) and that was the old command. Just apt is a more recent thing.
It's still nostalgic to watch this, even though I never used this particular version 🙂
please for the love of fried chicken don’t make the music louder than your voice and turn up your mic audio
The good old days of Linux when it was seat of the pants stuff.
the mattkc music goes so hard
I think you accidentally made the actual modern Ubuntu color gradient (not exactly the same but very recognizable)