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hambone79
September 28th, 2009, 05:38 PM
I stumbled onto this while cleaning out some junk on my file server today and thought I would share some old school goodness: :lolflag:

http://www.hacksawlabs.com/images/misc/old_desktop.jpg

This is a photo I took (with a film camera) while I was at Georgia Tech back in 2000. I was just trying to capture a picture of my computer layout, but I also got a decent view of my Linux desktop from back in the day. Here are the specs of my desktop (if my memory is correct):

Computer: 700MHz Celeron, 256MB RAM, 20GB HD (the box on the right)
OS: Red Hat Linux 7.0
Desktop Evnironment: Gnome 1.2
Window Manager: Enlightenment (not sure of the release)
Kernel Version: 2.2.x

Back then I was using the blueHeart GTK theme, blueHeart Enlightenment theme, and the blueHeart GKrellm them. You can see a screenshot of the Enlightenment/Gkrellm theme here (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.muhri.net/blue.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.muhri.net/nav.php3%3Fnode%3Dpic%26show%3D28&usg=__1snTDrf1rk1XHrAVFpetWVCvj8Q=&h=1200&w=1600&sz=402&hl=en&start=3&um=1&tbnid=XD09hdgHtUwN8M:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Denlightenment%2Bblueheart%2Bthemes%26 hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial%26hs%3Dtsy%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1) and the GTK theme here (http://jp.bizet.free.fr/themes/files/BlueHeart/GTK2shot-BlueHeart.png)

This setup was by far the best dark colored theme I have ever used for Linux because it was the only one that didn't make it difficult to read text in certain applications (i.e. by putting dark text on a dark background like most of the new themes tend to do).

Well, I hope someone enjoys my pointless post :)
RichardLinx
September 28th, 2009, 05:51 PM
What an awesome pointless post. I like looking at old-school stuff. I use to have a bizzare hobby of collecting old computers (Strange, I know) and seeing things like this brings back the good ol' days. :P
SomeGuyDude
September 28th, 2009, 05:54 PM
Enlightenment was around in 2000? And it's still not ready?
hoppipolla
September 28th, 2009, 06:02 PM
Enlightenment was around in 2000? And it's still not ready?

hehe they're just perfectionists :)

E17 is pretty much fine, you know what some people are like lol


EDIT -- Cool desktop by the way lol :)
jaxxstorm
September 28th, 2009, 07:43 PM
hehe they're just perfectionists :)

E17 is pretty much fine, you know what some people are like lol


EDIT -- Cool desktop by the way lol :)

I disagree about E17 - I downloaded and tried MoonOS 3.0 (http://www.moonos.co.cc/?page_id=7) today, and it crashed four time in 20 minutes.

Other than the crashes, MoonOS is one sexy looking distribution
Exodist
September 28th, 2009, 08:34 PM
LOL reminds me of when I was running Slack7 with Windowmaker, I used GKrellM, eTerm and I think Mozilla was just coming out then. I ran them on a K7-500MHz with 384MB RAM.

Come to think of it, for some strange reason it ran much faster then my daughters 1GHz eMac with 512MB RAM. Then again shes running Ubuntu 9.04PPC/Gnome 2.26. But I did cut almost every service including cron off. Dbus and Avhi are the only things I left running.
hoppipolla
September 28th, 2009, 08:46 PM
I disagree about E17 - I downloaded and tried MoonOS 3.0 (http://www.moonos.co.cc/?page_id=7) today, and it crashed four time in 20 minutes.

Other than the crashes, MoonOS is one sexy looking distribution

I just can't remember ever crashing e17 ._. It could have been the distro couldn't it? I can't believe eLive or Opengeu ever do that..
LowSky
September 28th, 2009, 09:44 PM
I had the same mouse pad. LOL
clonne4crw
October 5th, 2009, 04:43 AM
That's what pretty much all my desktops look like. Most of them given to me by family members. I love the sounds of old hard drives, floppy drives, etc. It just puts a warm feeling in my heart. :grin:
Sean Moran
October 5th, 2009, 04:51 AM
Not sure that I'd necessarily wanna try it out for myself, but however does someone manage to drink three different hot and cold beverages at the same time? Was that some kind of experimental 'multi-tasking' system you were trialling back in 2000?

<I remember those days too! :lolflag:>
Tipped OuT
October 5th, 2009, 04:54 AM
Reminds me of those desktops, with mystery operating systems, that you see on movies like Die Hard.
wdzieczny
October 5th, 2009, 05:00 AM
What an awesome pointless post. I like looking at old-school stuff. I use to have a bizzare hobby of collecting old computers (Strange, I know) and seeing things like this brings back the good ol' days. :P

Hahaha, Man that's really funny I have a stack of old computers I've been collecting for about a year just to see what I can do with them I just recently sold a super-old DOS laptop for 300$ haha.
travy4911
October 5th, 2009, 04:59 PM
Not sure that I'd necessarily wanna try it out for myself, but however does someone manage to drink three different hot and cold beverages at the same time? Was that some kind of experimental 'multi-tasking' system you were trialling back in 2000? >

I think we've all tried these "multi-tasking" experiences at one point or another.
fela
October 5th, 2009, 05:09 PM
Why were you using Linux 2.2? Wasn't 2.4 out by then? I thought it was.