• Wololo@lemmy.caEnglish
    2043·
    10 months ago

    Lemmy is so weird. Some of the memes make me think that average audience here is 15 yrs old, but then there is the occasional post like this which only 70 year old ancient wizards will understand.

  • Discoslugs@lemmy.world
    134·
    10 months ago

    Thank ya. as a red-neck american muhself Iz often feel lef tout of the fancy gizmo conversations yall be havin.

  • WhipTheLlama@lemmy.world
    54·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org
      6·
      10 months ago

      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.

    • cybertario
      2·
      10 months ago

      Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second love… 😃

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        10 months ago

        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.

  • twistypencil@lemmy.world
    35·
    10 months ago

    That wasn’t the installer or red hat specific. There used to be language filters in Linux including Swedish Chef, those just got included in the language packs and want so he redhat specific development

  • Transcriptionist@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 months ago

    Image Transcription:

    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]

    [I am a human, if I have made a mistake please message me. Please consider providing alt-text for images for ease of access. Thank you. 💜]

    • PutangInaMo@lemmy.world
      4·
      10 months ago

      Well see I come from that internets place out yonder, but I done need tuh git in that there kurnal whatcha ma callit and get r done no whut I’m talkin bout.

  • GreenMario@lemm.ee
    13·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • waffless@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      10 months ago

      i think they removed this in 5.2 since it broke everything if you used it outside of the installer and was only there to test locales

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Someone should totally recreate this language pack for a modern Linux Distro, or maybe even an interface language for lemmy?

  • Exec@pawb.social
    4·
    10 months ago

    The installer for VMware ESXi 7.0 (earliest version released in 2020) still had a Czechoslovakia option for keyboard layout selection.