@nixCraft Those old days. I am really fascinated where they went from there (being the enshittified, unethical fork of Debian that is harder to maintain than the original ever was because random software breaks deliberately by design or due to upgrade issues...).

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These were the CD sets sent to me. This was how I first started using Ubuntu.
https://mastodon.social/@catavz/111272280280662971

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iirc Ubuntu 4.10 wouldn't even boot to X on my machine at that time, but having to modify display parameters in the XFree86.conf or xorg.conf was typical back then!
Also I think the first Ubuntu release used Lilo boot loader as Grub was still in its infancy back then...

@nixCraft Why the poo brown though?

@nixCraft i think i still have those disc somewhere at my parent’s house… what a memories 🥲

@nixCraft back when gnome was slightly usable

@nixCraft Oh; that takes me back. lol

@nixCraft My first Linux at home was when I was given Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 CDs to try out at an open source con. Neither worked well for me. The following year, I was given a Xubuntu 8.04 CD and that was better. I used it lightly for 2 years until the laptop it was on died. I gave Ubuntu 10.04 a try on a different laptop, and used it a bit. 12.04 was a failure for me, 14.04 was even worse. I never tried 16.04, 18.04 was still bad. I did not try more after that until Mint 22 last fall.

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The days of
"sudo apt install wpa-supplicant" 🙂

@nixCraft good times!