5 pioneering Linux distros that quietly faded into history

Explore the rise and fall of these groundbreaking Linux systems, and how their legacies live on.

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First time I tried #KDE was on… oh shit it was on #YellowDogLinux in the #powerpc days. Looking back I can’t believe it’s now my daily DE, it’s come so far. Congratulations kde!

Hey @ActionRetro, are you up for some old Linux shenanigans? I just uploaded the full set of discs for #SuSE #Linux 6.4 for #PowerPC to the Internet Archive. And guess what: the TAM is supported!

This is a distro from May 2000, so it would be a good way to show what the "user experience" on Linux was back then.

I bought it at the time to run on my iMac G3, but I was more used to Red Hat-based distros and soon switched to #LinuxPPC and #YellowDogLinux.

Get it at: https://archive.org/details/suse-6.4-ppc

SuSE Linux 6.4 PPC Full Set : SUSE Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is SuSE Linux 6.4 for PowerPC machines, released around May 2000 (judging by the date of the files on the disc). It came in a box with 4 discs, a printed...

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Les distributions GNU/Linux (in)justement oubliées, ép. 28 : la Yellow Dog Linux

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Les distributions GNU/Linux (in)justement oubliées, ép. 28 : la Yellow Dog Linux

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