Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don’t mean RHEL.
Hah, same/similar release as me — family had dialup at the time, but I found “RedHat Linux Secrets 5.x” (with included CD) at a garage sale.
Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second love… 😃
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I think I got that one; back then you could order cheap CDs of a bunch of different distributions from third-party vendors because most people didn’t have broadband. Depressingly, it seems the firm I used (CheapBytes out of California) is gone now.
I had used Slackware before that since my ‘learn you linux’ book came with a Slackware disc set. I recall it being frustrating because I had actually bought WordPerfect for Linux, a libc5 product, and it didn’t work right with the new glibc universe.
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This was also in Mandrake Linux.
Because Mandrake was a Red Hat fork
cotton eyed Joe approved.
Thank ya. as a red-neck american muhself Iz often feel lef tout of the fancy gizmo conversations yall be havin.
Just install them La’nuxes for them cozzy feelings.
Core memory unlocked. This had to be Red Hat 7? One of the few releases before they ditched home/personal use and went all in on enterprise server.
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Top text: At one point, Red Hat Linux had a “Redneck” language option for its installer. I’ll just leave these images here: Four images of the Red Hat Linux installer with “Welcome to Red Hat Linux” above it and “/ between elements : selects : next screen” below. The first dialogue box reads: [Choose a Language] What language should we use during the installation process? English Czech French German Norwegian Redneck (selected) Romanian Turkish [OK]
Second dialogue box: [keyboard type] whichadese keyboards you got? tr_f-latin5 tr_q-latin5 tralt trf trq uk us-prokey us (selected) [yep]
Third dialogue box: [installation method] which kinda stuff has the packages, junior? Local CDROM (selected) NFS image hard drive FTP SMB image [yep] [back up!]
Fourth dialogue box: [note] stick in your Red Hat CD into dat coffee holder on the front [yep] [back]
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Absolutely based
whichadose
The installer for VMware ESXi 7.0 (earliest version released in 2020) still had a Czechoslovakia option for keyboard layout selection.
Interesting! Just laziness or was that layout different from either Slovak or Czech?
Someone should totally recreate this language pack for a modern Linux Distro, or maybe even an interface language for lemmy?
The modern appropriate version of this is Pirate or l33tspeak, it’s a common technique for debugging localization issues without having to be able to read another language
I remember setting my facebook to pirate back in the day. Fun times.
Avast antivirus had a pirate language, it was excellent
“Avast antivirus has been updated!”
Hnnnnnng, you triggered my PTSD from windows
they also have this English but RTL thing.
I miss everything having pirate speak. I don’t know why it stopped being a trend.
yep
What in tarnation
What in the installation’s goin on in there?
UwU when?
I would use Linux much more for personal stuff if they had UwU language options.
The future is now
Oh right. I forgot about that
