This is the update metalhead nerds have been waiting for.

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    11 months ago

    If you see the word “LILO” during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix.

    Wow, that’s a blast from the past! Completely forgot that LILO used to be a thing.

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      11 months ago

      I remember dealing with migrating from LILO to GRUB when I was in high school, maybe 2005ish? It’s been a while. I remember the migration from ipchains to iptables, too (which is happening again now with the iptables to nftables migration)

      I used Ubuntu at the time… It was a great distro back then. I only had dial-up so couldn’t download large files easily, and Canonical or one of their local partners would mail you a CD for free regardless of where you lived in the world. I think that helped a LOT of people get into Linux.

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        11 months ago

        Similar experiences here. I remember waiting for the free CDs bundles with monthly magzines, and add then I’d the CD as a mirror in my repos to update my packages lol

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          Ubuntu was the distribution that had me switch from dual-booting with Windows as default to dual-booting with Linux as default.

          I also remember ordering an actual Ubuntu disc, with the extra donation to fund the mailing for free program.

          Now years later after lots of distro-hopping I just run Ubuntu LTS, and stay on the very boring LTS branch.