▲ 1782 ▼ Hot take (lemmy.ml) submitted 2 years ago by SchrodingersPat@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 353 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Fox@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children) I dunno, I picked RedHat 5.2 as a complete beginner along with fvwm95 and afterstep, and that worked out okay. Of course, that was 25 years ago. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] recapitated@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago 25 years ago the viability of options were slightly more prescriptive permalink fedilink source parent [–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago Same. I remember getting interested in Linux in like 1997 or so, and it seemed like RedHat was preferred for newbies. Of course, what were the alternatives then? It was basically Slackware (or Suse), Debian, and RedHat (or Caldera). There was no RHEL or Canonical or SElinux back then. It was a different time. Hell one of the language packs for installing RedHat was “Redneck”. It was a gimmick to demonstrate localization options. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago 25 years ago the viability of options were slightly more prescriptive permalink fedilink source parent
[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago Same. I remember getting interested in Linux in like 1997 or so, and it seemed like RedHat was preferred for newbies. Of course, what were the alternatives then? It was basically Slackware (or Suse), Debian, and RedHat (or Caldera). There was no RHEL or Canonical or SElinux back then. It was a different time. Hell one of the language packs for installing RedHat was “Redneck”. It was a gimmick to demonstrate localization options. permalink fedilink source parent
