9 Projects that CHANGED the Linux world!

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9 Projects that CHANGED the Linux world!

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00:00 Intro
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01:31 The GNU Project: the actual OS
03:31 Slackware: paving the way
05:02 Yggdrasil: The First Live CD
05:54 X11: yay, graphics!
07:02 Red hat & SUSE: commercial open source
08:54 Debian: the embodiment of FOSS
10:09 Ubuntu: making Linux usable by everyone
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The GNU project was started by Richard Stallman all the way back in 1985, with the main goal of promoting free software, and providing an alternative to proprietary software, that was spreading like wildfire. While GNU was on point for the operating system related tools, they definitely did not manage to make a good kernel. GNU needed a kernel, Linux needed some tools to use that kernel, so it was a match made in heaven.
Slackware isn't the very first Linux distribution that was created, that honor goes to an unnamed one, distributed on 2 floppies by HJ Lu. But Slackware is the distro that put Linux on the radar for people who were tired of Unix.
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Slackware was the first credible alternative to using one of the Unixes on a server, and people noticed. It was stable, reliable, and it followed the Unix principles closely.
Ok, now, something you might not know about: Yggdrasil Linux. It was another Linux distro, with its first alpha version released at the very end of 1992, and what makes it special, is the fact that it was the first to bring a Live CD to Linux.
We also have to talk about X.org. This thing is what powered the graphical part of Linux, the visual elements you can interact with, for most of its existence, and it's still used by millions today, even though Wayland is absolutely usable these days.
Without XFree86 or X.org as it became to be known, Linux as we know it would probably not exist.
Now, we also have Red hat, and SUSE: they were the first commercial Linux distributions that proved that yes, you could combine open source and making money, and yes, Linux could be a successful product.
On the other side of the fence is Debian, an old distribution dating from 1993 and that of course still exists today. And it's NOT a commercial entity, even today, all while being a big name in the Linux world.
Debian's contribution to Linux is the living embodiement of the principles of open source, free software, and the community.
And speaking of Ubuntu, it might not be the paragon of the Linux desktop it once was, but when it was introduced, it was a small revolution. It was a Linux distribution for everyone, not for computer enthusiasts.
Ubuntu showed that Linux COULD be for everyone, when most other distributions never really targeted the general public, or never really focused on the user experience.
Another hugely influential project that made Linux wonderful is Wine. Wine is the compatibility layer that lets you run Windows programs on Linux. Wine is a very important project, because without it, Proton wouldn't exist, gaming on Linux virtually wouldn't exist either, and the Steam Deck would never have been a success, or maybe even worked on.

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@FarrellMcGovern Жыл бұрын

People should also remember that Slackware was a a fork of Softlanding Linux System (SLS). SLS's motto was "Gentle Touchdowns for DOS Bailouts". Slackware was Patrick Volkerding's attempt to cleanup and fix SLS. Similarly, Debian was a response to the frustration people were having with SLS.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

As I understand it, SLS was an all-or-nothing kind of setup--you couldn’t choose the parts you wanted to install. And upgrading was very fiddly. Slackware broke things up into pieces to make them more manageable--sort of a proto-package manager.

@FarrellMcGovern Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 They were indeed packages, tarballs, or tgz. Although they didn't do any dependency checking, but made installing individual packages easy.

@fredashay Жыл бұрын

I would love to see a video detailing the early history of Linux. Yes, I know that it all started with Multics, then Unix, then Minix, then Linux, and there are plenty of videos that go through this. But I want a video that delves deeper, and talks about the early distros and the early kernels and how they came to be and became modern Linux.

@zxami Жыл бұрын

Don't forget about Mandrake Linux. The first distro I remember with hardware detection. It was like a simpler, prettier, and better configured Red Hat with working audio out of the box.

@Mithferion Жыл бұрын

It was my first distro as well

@nymusicman Жыл бұрын

Same. Mandrake 10.2 was my first distro. And the frustrations I had with RPM hell actually drove me to Slackware. While I would not use Ubuntu for my desktop today, back then all I could say was thank God for Ubuntu.

@CristobalWatsonHernandez Жыл бұрын

Was my second distro after Red Hat Linux

@sylviam6535 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but many of its features were buggy.

@asanjuas 5 ай бұрын

Well the first Linux distro one was SLS made by Peter McDonald.

@sprinklednights Жыл бұрын

I think Valve in general has done a lot for Linux. Should be credited too

@jeremiahbullfrog9288 Жыл бұрын

Can you elaborate a little? My only experience with Valve is their refusal to provide me with Half Life 3.

@_nuage_ Жыл бұрын

@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 basically valve is the creator of the steam deck and proton

@suryanshtokas6337 Жыл бұрын

@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 valve has improved Linux gaming by a lot by proton and now the steam deck

@jeremiahbullfrog9288 Жыл бұрын

Cool i'll have to check it out, thanks

@kier_eli Жыл бұрын

@@_nuage_ Proton is 97% Wine. It's nice that Valve added that 3%, sure. Nice flag btw. The coolest one.

@mirage809 Жыл бұрын

A fun little history lesson in here. These projects and companies are all big parts that made Linux into the system we now know and love. Suse and Red Hat in particular are massive deals considering how big Linux is in the server world. It wouldn't surprise me if a good chunk of enterprise Linux servers run on OpenSuse or RHEL or something that spawned from those two systems. Also, honorable mention to DXVK. I know you mention it as part of Wine, but it's just fun to read that a big reason as to why gaming on Linux through Proton is so performant is because somebody just really wanted to play Nier: Automata.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

A common recurring scenario in Open Source is “scratching an itch”.

@skelebro9999 Жыл бұрын

Arch. Gave birth to the biggest meme in the Linux community.

@RemindMeToCheck 2 ай бұрын

Might as well give Gentoo some credit too :)

@neverping Жыл бұрын

When it comes to productivity, I would say StarOffice, that becomes Libre/OpenOffice. Not only they were able to read proprietary Microsoft Office files, as well as creating Open formats that could be used by open or proprietary programs, tools, or systems. With Open Document Format, we can create a Document can be easily opened and shared across Open Office, Google Docs, and Microsoft 365.

@JasonMaggini Жыл бұрын

Slackware was my introduction to Linux in the mid-90's- I picked up a set of floppies at a bookstore. You really had to get under the hood and tinker to make things work, which was a pretty good way to learn how things worked.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it’s still a good learning experience!

@meeponinthbit3466 Жыл бұрын

First few times I downloaded, but I eventually bought a CD just to support it. And it has always had software packages (at least since 96).... They just weren't some proprietary archive... They were simple .tgz files based from the root path. Just extract the tar, boom, software installed.

@awuma Жыл бұрын

I got into that way circa 1995 too. I used Slackware for two or three years before switching to Redhat. Since I had a lot of experience with SunOS from 1985 onwards, the manual editing of all those rc files under /etc wasn't too scary, but the automatic hardware recognition and configuration upon installing Redhat was a revelation, and a few years later Ubuntu made installing Linux easier than installing Windows. One thing I've retained since SunOS is manual partitioning of drives, which is also easy now, dual-booting with Windows being simple to set up. I can't understand why anyone would put /, /boot, swap, /usr and /home all in the same partition. For the last eight years or so, I've stayed with Ubuntu MATE.

@jamesyoung151 Жыл бұрын

Same. I started with Slackware in Jul 1993.

@daviydviljoen9318 3 ай бұрын

I knew a psychics professor that uses Slackware with fluxbox on everything he can. He used to build his own repos with all the depencies, and he learned how to write his own drivers... Arch users wish they were that hardcore!

@abarocio80 Жыл бұрын

Gimp and Star/Libre Office were very important to prove GNU/Linux was not only for programmers, but could be use as a productivity platform

@M3T4L80Y Жыл бұрын

Ubuntu also did popularise Linux among the masses by shipping CDs for free.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

True!

@gwgux Жыл бұрын

I agree with everything on this list, and I personally would make it 10 and add the KDE project. It was started before GNOME and did a great job of showcasing the benefits of building an entire DE instead of just relying on a bare bones window manager and building up a working environment around that.

@softwarelivre2389 Жыл бұрын

I believe the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE) was created as a response to the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), no? I don't quite remember the details now.

@joey199412 Жыл бұрын

I'd say Arch as a rolling distro that is continuously up to date is also a big milestone that changed Linux.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

True!

@fabricio4794 Жыл бұрын

Arch Sucks

@blbezcc Жыл бұрын

@@fabricio4794 no

@marcelosouza142 Жыл бұрын

@@fabricio4794 Also true!

@apoema42 Жыл бұрын

And the Arch LInux's Wiki is a huge source of LInux knowledge even for those who don't use Arch.

@nashidazaz Жыл бұрын

10 projects that changed the Linux world: 1. GNU Project 2. Linux Kernel 3. Apache Web Server 4. GNOME Desktop Environment 5. KDE Desktop Environment 6. Ubuntu Linux 7. Android OS 8. Docker 9. Kubernetes 10. Raspberry Pi

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Great list!

@awuma Жыл бұрын

These didn't change just the Linux world, but all the computing and Internet world! In fact, the world, period. And in the mid-90's we laughed at the "world domination" joke... and worried about the ravings of Steve Ballmer and the craziness of SCO.

@cameronbosch1213 Жыл бұрын

Add KDE 3 to that list as well. Until KDE Plasma 4 came out and was prematurely put on distros, it was basically the biggest DE. I think Plasma should still be on more distros...

@Lightbeerer Жыл бұрын

The LAMP stack. The video focuses more on desktop, I suppose. But a big part of Linux' success on the server is thanks to this successful combination with Apache (web server), MySQL database (and later MariaDB), and PHP.

@WilburJaywright Жыл бұрын

X11 was also a fictional missile defense system in the Get Smart episode _A Spy For A Spy_ , and I think it’s a shame more people haven’t noticed this.

@nickfmt Жыл бұрын

They missed it by that much...

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

If you want another piece of TV-show-reference trivia, I came across “Unicode” as the name of a fictional top-secret cipher in one of the later _Danger Man_ episodes.

@WilburJaywright Жыл бұрын

@@nickfmt I want to reply to your comment, but… I request the cone of silence.

@OcteractSG Жыл бұрын

That must be the more likely origin of Outpost X11 on Planet Aridia in Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal.

@OcteractSG Жыл бұрын

I wonder what projects we have today that would end up in a video like this ten years from now. Flatpak comes to mind here, and so do GNOME and KDE (these two are important now, but they will become even more notable as they continue to push Wayland forward).

@McDinoh 9 ай бұрын

I would say in 10 years Steam for Linux gaming.

@fakecubed 4 ай бұрын

Steam has been absolutely massive for Linux.

@fuseteam Жыл бұрын

I think you forgot kde, they brokered a deal with Qt that keeps that opensource, they also created khtml, which apple forked into webkit, which is still in use today in the form of webkit2gtk Speaking of which, apple! Which somehow ended up maintaining the cups server maintainer (which allows us to print) Aaaand gnome, which stated gtk in order to rival KDE's Qt not being satisfied with how the licensing was handled back fhen I suppose pulseaudio too but i suppose that's a red hat thing

@floppa9415 Жыл бұрын

Hands down AOSP deserves a mention. Its in the end how probably 95% of people experience Linux even if they never realize it. And the underlaying technology is fascinating. Like many Android Apps can be run independently of the CPU architecture and the way Apps need permissions and are isolated from one another makes Android extremly secure.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

True!

@rynn_3988 Жыл бұрын

That is how I learned to flash custom ROMs on my Android devices.

@tyrkukulkan Жыл бұрын

I have a fair bit of nostalgia for the old brown Ubuntu. I always keep a live USB handy. It'll fix so many things. Never used WINE/Proton until the Steam Deck though.

@prathammdupare Жыл бұрын

20 years later: Hey everyone, this is Nick and today we will talk about "How Wayland changed the Linux World!".

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Hahaha might happen!

@JamesJones-zt2yx Жыл бұрын

Hmmm.. how about Knoppix? It was a Live CD that would recognize a LOT of hardware, which made life much easier (especially for a then-newbie like me).

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

That was almost the first live CD, wasn’t it?

@JamesJones-zt2yx Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Yggdrasil was 1992; Knoppix 2000.

@jonathanj.7344 Жыл бұрын

I think Salix OS is doing a great job of introducing Slackware to ordinary users. Makes everything easy to use and set up

@arxaaron Жыл бұрын

Nice and appropriate acknowledgement of Stallman and GNU, though it might have been nice to also acknowledge how Linus Torvalds' used the GNU tools to create and compile the Linux kernel. Found all the other history well illuminated... except, of course, for the omission of Amiga's influences.. 🤣

@joepreludian Жыл бұрын

Awesome content! I think that, before Ubuntu, it would be nice to talk about Knoppix and it's approach as a live Distro. Here in Brazil there was a distro called Kurumin, based on knoppix, that revolutionized the adherence of Linux across BR computers as well.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

I never tried Knoppix but it was either this one or Yggdrasil, they both appeared around the same time with the liveCD concept!

@allNicksAlreadyTaken Жыл бұрын

I live in Germany and Knoppix was the first distro I heard about and that I booted into. A couple of my friends in school did so too.

@awuma Жыл бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXP Knoppix was very useful for maintenance of crashed systems.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

@@awuma Nowadays SystemRescue is purpose-built for that. Anybody remember those business-card-shaped CDs? Could hold about 50MB, just the right size for Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux. Not sure if current drives can even handle them any more ...

@MariusMateiMMA Жыл бұрын

I was introduced to Linux via Knoppix. It was distributed along with a Linux magazine. I was impressed by the fact that I could run an operating system from a (live) CD. It was very polished and was runnig KDE 3. Nostalgia...

@Kyuunex Жыл бұрын

DXVK deserves it's own section. While Wine has existed for 25+ years, it really sucked with games, until DXVK came along and made gaming on Linux feasible.

@aaaaasssss884 Жыл бұрын

I think it can be summarised by AMD. Without AMD's work on Mantle and vulkan none of these graphic translation layers are possible.

@prispalos Жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early, XOrg was only an idea

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Hahaha 😂

@mattparry9645 Жыл бұрын

For me, my first experience of Linux was knoppix. The live disk blew me away. When I when to install it, it looked rubbish. I didn't realise at the time that the live disk was kde and the installed version used gnome. Been using kde ever since

@hjf3022 Жыл бұрын

How long ago was this? I've been using it since 2009, and it has been lxde the whole time I've used it.

@sylviam6535 Жыл бұрын

The early versions ran sloooowly. Not the fault of Knoppix - the hardware at the time just wasn’t really ready for live CDs.

@meeponinthbit3466 Жыл бұрын

Slackware baby!!!!!! The OG "BTW, I run Arch". God, I miss having the time to do everything myself.

@boredgrass Жыл бұрын

The most impressive "feature" of Linux is it's community! If these people had needed a new law of gravitation to improve a kernel, they would have programmed it!

@Ybalrid Жыл бұрын

There's something really really funny to think about these Boot/Root floppies. Imagine back then you had to use the Boot floppy that contained the kernel and boot environment, load that in memory, but then your file system is on another drive. Imagine having to swap those floppies if you only had one drive on your PC!

@mattsadventureswithart5764 Жыл бұрын

I remember doing that with my mates amiga500, and to a lesser extent my amiga1200.

@Ybalrid Жыл бұрын

@@mattsadventureswithart5764 Oh, Linux on Amiga. That sounds sexy

@markustieger Жыл бұрын

3:26, i think there is udev missing which is also important. Udev is a part of the most init ram disks and makes for example the following possible: "/dev/disk/by-uuid/"

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

udev+sysfs was invented as a successor to devfs. The first Linux distro I ran on one of my own machines was Mandrake 9.0, which used devfs, in 2004. But it was already on its way out then. Besides having various fundamental bugs, it violated the Linux philosophy of separating mechanism from policy: the built-in mechanisms should configurable at the upper level to implement whatever policy the user wishes; in this case, forcing a particular device-naming scheme on the hardware.

@TheWilldrick Жыл бұрын

you missed Compiz-fusion that wowed people left and right, performing wild stuff like setting windows on fire, having a desktop cube, and wobbly windows, while performing 10x better than Vista

@blackwin2721 Жыл бұрын

talk about ubuntu ultimate edition ... the windows blowing up when you close , and magic lamp (before mac_osx) for minimizing... mind was destroyed

@elmariachi5133 Жыл бұрын

You forgot about the most important project that was responsible to nearly double the Linux market share since 2010. It's made by Microsoft and called "Windows". The downside about it of course is, that even more people directly fled from the Microsoft-prison into the Apple-asylum.

@rayrwyr Жыл бұрын

In 1995 I started with Linux by dual-booting Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 and Windows 95. Soon I deleted the Windows 95 partition and used Linux on my desktop for next 10 years. I always used to build my own Linux kernel. Now I run Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora) on VMware as guest vm.

@curryleavesbydhanya Жыл бұрын

Great video as always! Keep up the good job. All your videos are super enjoyable to watch.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@thekillersclan420 Жыл бұрын

Very true

@neoney Жыл бұрын

Shame that Hyprland didn't make it on the list, really a breakthrough when it comes to wayland

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

It’s way too soon to say if it will change Linux :)

@DashieTM Жыл бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXP give it a try :P

@codingwithculp Жыл бұрын

My first Linux distro was Slackware 2.2.0. I was in a bookstore or computer store in Raleigh, NC in 1994ish when I was in the Army. I saw a book on the shelf called "Slackware Linux" and I thought "Linux sounds a lot like Unix that I used while in college". Sure enough, it was. The boom came with a CD with Slackware 2.2.0 on it. I went back to my barracks room and installed it on my 50Mhz 486 and I was hooked. For awhile, it was all I used. I then migrated to SuSE which the early versions of SuSE were based on Slackware. I haven't used Slackware in probably 15-20 years. I've got an older (2012) laptop on the way I planned to install Linux on, maybe I will try out Slackware again.

@leadlearner6391 Жыл бұрын

Nick your knowledge is just awe inspiring :-) my first encounter with linux was YDL (yellow dog linux) for Mac; I installed on my blue G3 power mac in 1999

@Buddharta Жыл бұрын

I think the most recent linux transformation is the container revolution we are seeing so I would add something from that... Probably docker or podman.

@Jool4832 Жыл бұрын

And Nix

@brandleesee Жыл бұрын

WINE = wine is not an emulator MEDNAFEN = my emulator doesn't need a frickin' excellent name

@robertmaxa6631 Жыл бұрын

These projects are proof positive, that innovation can take place, without the profit motive.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@sylviam6535 Жыл бұрын

Yes, but don’t forget that IBM and other companies poured a ton of money an$ talent into open source projects.

@fakecubed 4 ай бұрын

There's been tons of profit motive. The profit was the user's profit (Linux developers are also Linux users), also the various companies that sold or sell training, support services, etc., and all the companies selling software that works on Linux that have contributed to Linux so their software will run better.

@HaveSomeCyanide Жыл бұрын

Keep making the great content, love seeing it!

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@HaveSomeCyanide Жыл бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXP No, thank YOU

@grgmn Жыл бұрын

Between Wayland, PipeWire, and Flatpak we've come a long way in terms of usability recently.

@SarrabiscosPT Жыл бұрын

I think apache (or even the whole LAMP stack) was also very important for the dominance of linux in the webserver market.

@FarmRanchHomestead Жыл бұрын

Apache was my first thought after Nick ran through his list. Even though I have only a very limited knowledge of Apache, there was a time when it was said that the internet ran on Apache or Apache ran the internet, or something like that. I'm certain that the use of Linux in the webserver space largely contributed to the use of Linux on the desktop. One of the major reasons I wanted to try Linux originally was because of its legendary reliability (uptime) as compared to Windows. I've been using Linux since the days of Red Hat version 5, if I remember correctly. When the 2.0 Kernel came out, I remember learning how to compile it so we could upgrade our systems back then. There was certainly a steep learning curve back then, which is why only computer nerds were using Linux at that time. Now, I believe Linux is easier to install and use than Windows is, and has lots of other advantages: it isn't spyware, it's infinitely configurable, it doesn't enslave the user with strict terms and conditions, and it's affordable (and so are many of the apps).

@gregholloway2656 Жыл бұрын

Great video, Nick. I’ve been a Linux user since the beginning. I would add the graphical toolkits GTK and QT to your list. These are the foundation to most graphical apps we have. Prior to them, the X desktop was pretty limited (Motif and others). 👍

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

True, they were a big help!

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

Motif pioneered the idea of multiple desktops.

@richardmeyer418 Жыл бұрын

Back when I was but a youth - in 1995, I installed Slackware on machine, Wine stood for Windows Emulator - of course, later they realised that emulation would not cover the necessary shenanigans to run windows code, so they changed the name.

@negirno Жыл бұрын

Don't forget Gimp! Although many people (myself included, shame on me) like to roast it, it was a phenomenon when it appeared in 1996. The same goes for Inkscape and Krita (which started not long after Gimp, but it only became popular in the early-to-mid 2010s after the first big fundraisers. A honorable mention also goes to the original mplayer which was a very efficient video player at the time, ffmpeg was basically spun out of it (or the other way around? I could be wrong in this...)

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

GIMP is still more innovative than people realize. For example, its GEGL pixel engine can natively handle images with 32-bit floating-point pixel components, which Adobe Photoshop still struggles with.

@negirno Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Yeah, GEGL is great, but it's not the original Gimp engine. It was in the making for more than a decade, and the app only transitioned to it a couple of versions ago. Until then Gimp still had the old engine with all of its limitations.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

@@negirno But not any more. Now it has features that Adobe cannot match.

@auriplane Жыл бұрын

Slackware was my introduction to Linux almost 30 years ago, and it was a really good experience for me as a Linux / BSD newbie. I'm using Mint these days.

@DavidSchneir Жыл бұрын

Nick, you forgot project #10 ("The Linux Experiment") that spread Linux to the non-Linux users at scale!! 💪🏻💪🏻🤘🏻

@darkpepito4438 Жыл бұрын

Thank you comrade Ian Murdock, we will remember you. (🎵L'Internationale🎵)

@scottfranco1962 Жыл бұрын

Yea, we needed all these different package managers. Thanks a lot.

@killingmachinelp Жыл бұрын

Anyone remembers Mandrake? Mandriva? Mandrake was the distro we had to use at our college labs, because our hod(head of department) said "if you want to code in this lab you use linux"... 😂.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

The first non-Apple machine I bought was a Shuttle (remember those?), which came with a copy of Mandrake 9.0 “Discovery Edition” in the box. This was in 2004. “Discovery Edition” meant that it was missing the third CD with all the developer tools. So my first exercise in getting into the bowels of my new Linux system was figuring out how to download and install GCC and other development-related packages from the Mandrake repos.

@kaushikmitra28 Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 haha.. I remember Mandriva dvd used to have option to install developer softwares. I think it was Mandriva 2009 where I installed wine for the 1st time in my life and played cod 2, it worked well with opengl drivers, cs 1.6 too 😅

@djanthony6662 Жыл бұрын

You mentioned Yggdrasil, which reminds me of Knoppix Linux. I learn how to build live OS from that distro, and ended up maintain and using my own for almost 3/4 years after previously using Slackware, Debian, and Mandrake. Great times, one of the most exciting era in my life.

@LarixusSnydes Жыл бұрын

Yes, Knoppix was much more user-friendly than Yggdrassil. The first time I ran it, it felt like magic.

@TawaraboshiGenba Жыл бұрын

I love remembering the good ol' days! It's definitely a sign that I'm getting old, even though I'm only slightly older than the Linux kernel 😅 Mandrake 9.2 was my first, and it will always have a special place in my heart!

@wantgoodvibes6166 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff and breakdown, I was around and using Linux back in the mid 90's it was so cool and awesome to be able to be a "Personal Computer" enthusiast(since the early/mid 80's) and still have access to systems and software that were so deep into UNIX type things. Previously, it was Atari 1040ST type systems or early 8088's. Borrowing Linux books from the library that came with CD installers, along with the bookstores that carried Linux magazines with installer CD's. It was great!! Mandrake Linux , :)) Hate on MS, but they pumped PC's into every home through to the end of the 90's and drove the cost of PC hardware way down. Was around while things transitioned from Basic and BBS systems to dial up Internet, ugh dial up!! lol. Thank you Nick!

@jamesyoung151 Жыл бұрын

Slackware was the first Linux I ever used. Dating myself, I first installed it Jul 1993. Gentoo is my distro of choice. I'm going to convert my last Windows PC to Linux within a year. I'm exploring my options via an old laptop that I have to make my final decision.

@Jokerlevin Жыл бұрын

Mandrake, Knoppix and SLS should've been in the video. Good video regardless. Keep up the good work!

@sreimert 4 ай бұрын

I drove to Mountain View and bought Yggdrasil on a CD -- and spent the next two days configuring the video driver. Linux has come a LONG way!

@lordmuaddib Жыл бұрын

i'd probably add to the list the whole aiglx transition mumbojumbo which in one hand pushed accelerated desktop with a giant speed increase and better resource management, and on the other hand forced manifacturers to actively develop their gpu drivers. and ironically it's also the time the world finally saw the x11 codebase was too messy to be properly maintained and go forward.

@AlucardNoir Жыл бұрын

Ah OpenSUSE, my first linux distro, all the way back in 2005. Ubuntu was really new at the time so the most realistic choice was between Fedora and OpenSUSE and OpenSUSE looked just like XP. It was a no brainer. Too bad I made the mistake of trying and then moving to Ubuntu.Ubuntu messed up so badly in 2012 that I left linux behind completely for the better part of a decade.

@awuma Жыл бұрын

I switched from regular Ubuntu to Ubuntu MATE, which avoided all that GNOME 3/Wayland/Unity or whatever mess.

@AlucardNoir Жыл бұрын

@@awuma the problem wasn't unity, it was sending desktop searches to Amazon.

@danoblue Жыл бұрын

Very informative historical perspective of an operating system which should be more popular among the user community than it is. I was first introduced to Linux through a CD version of Ubuntu in a computer magazine, which I dual-installed on my Windows machine without really knowing what I was doing. This was around 2007 or 2008. I later switched to Kubuntu out of curiosity, and have been faithful to it since, although I use MxLinux on a 32-bit netbook which I take to the beach. I have tried a number of distros virtually and like a lot of them, but I'm sticking with the familiar and the stable. Merci por la petite histoire.

@chrismcdonnell7448 Жыл бұрын

So glad dependency hell is not a thing in modern popular Linux distros. Those were the bad days of early Linux.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah

@guss77 Жыл бұрын

You got the X client/served model wrong: the client sends instructions to the server, not like what you said. The server sends input events and the client tells the server what to draw. Later versions would allow the client to ask for direct access to a GPU buffer to draw directly on the screen for game performance, but generally in X the client does not draw the windows, it just sends pictures and textures to the server.

@jeroenstrompf5064 Жыл бұрын

Zoom uses Wine! Changes are, that without Wine, Corona would have been a different experience for many of us :)

@xmvziron Жыл бұрын

Funny, exactly today I was thinking you hardly mentioned GNU in your videos!

@alexdesj6755 Жыл бұрын

Hey! Nice video. I'm a blind person who had used a GNU/Linux distro in the past. you forgot to talk about the BRLTTY project. That one bring the support of braille displays on Linux, like on Debian or Linux Mint. It is also compatible with another project called Orca, a screen reader for the blind visual impaired users.

@CCoburn3 Жыл бұрын

I started with Red Hat. It was an absolute pain the the butt. But then, ALL Linux was a pain those days. I don't miss the "good old days."

@Lampe2020 Жыл бұрын

ReactOS wouldn't be as far as it's now without Linux because Linux made WINE important and ReactOS is basically an enriched version of WINE, become an operating system.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

I’m not really sure ReactOS is necessary. It seems easier to concentrate on WINE, and let the existing Linux kernel take care of all the lower-level stuff.

@Lampe2020 Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 The good thing is that WINE just tries to run Window$ applications and ReactOS tries to be a Window$-compatible Window$ alternative in the form of FOSS. And WINE is developed by a completely different team than ReactOS and ReactOS also takes much of the code from WINE and mostly just builds their own kernel below that.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

@@Lampe2020 Yeah, but nobody cares about wanting to run Windows just for itself -- they just need it for the apps. If the apps can run under WINE, that gets rid of the need for the Windows OS itself, or for any recreations thereof.

@Lampe2020 Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 You might wonder but there's also people who like Window$ and run it because of the operating system, so they wouldn't make the switch. And also, Micro$oft will do everything they can to prevent WINE from being able to run every Window$ application, like for example the UWP apps, they are very tricky to set up properly and get working in WINE.

@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Жыл бұрын

@@Lampe2020 You may have a point about Microsoft, but then, UWP is not used that much -- it’s just one of many app frameworks that Microsoft has created and then abandoned in favour of yet something else. So if it won’t run on WINE, that’s no big loss.

@IngAndalado Жыл бұрын

Great as always nick, but i think you forget the program that is the cornerstone of web browsing... Apache... The internet would not be what it is today without Apache.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

True!

@Satook Жыл бұрын

Apache. It and PHP drove 10’s of thousands of people over to the free, stable alternative to IIS and the massively expensive web container server environments.

@DaNiePred Жыл бұрын

Still remember that I got Suse Linux (I think it has been Version 6) as a birthday present back than (yes, it had been on my wishlist 🙂) and started playing around with it. Hmm, maybe I should go back to my roots and throw ubuntu of my drive and put Suse back on it 😀

@davidculp6266 Жыл бұрын

For me the project that let me set the windows box aside forever was the FlightGear flight simulator. The project that made FlightGear work on linux was OpenGL.

@marcinmionskowski664 Жыл бұрын

Oh man.... Ubuntu in 2006 and rpm->deb conversion. I still feel that pain... Now runing Mint, Kubuntu, Debian (bulseye & testing), OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Each distro seems to be perfectly matched to its main use. We have come a long way...

@ewhite1546 Жыл бұрын

I think Android/AOSP needed to be on here. It's by far the most mainstream Linux "thing" people use every day

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

True!

@vaisakhkm783 Жыл бұрын

yes, also raspberry pi...... it played big roll in introduction of linux to the millions...

@DakotahMiskus 10 ай бұрын

I can’t believe I got my start on Linux over 10 years ago. I got started when Wuxi made it easy to dual boot windows and Ubuntu. I also had tried Linux mandrake at that time.

@onedaywewill Жыл бұрын

My first distro was Caldera, easy to install and set up and even then it would dual boot with Windows.

@melbaqir Жыл бұрын

Apache is what made Linux the most used OS on servers.

@LoesserOf2Evils Жыл бұрын

Nice encapsulation of the contributions.

@marcelotp2 Жыл бұрын

I started using Linux with Yggdrasil in 1993, I thought I was the only one that knew that unique distro, that time we used to say Free Unix for PC instead GNU/Linux.

@UndoEverything Жыл бұрын

Three things I remember about my Linux journey. 1: I tried to install RedHat on my PC in 1999 and failed. 2: Canonical, if I remember, used to ship installation CDs free of charge. Or at least I got it in Sweden via post in 2005/2006. 3: Ubuntu 22.04 is a mess regardless of hardware.

@cenedi Жыл бұрын

The pun counter was very funny.

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😁

@abdullahimuhammadauwal7226 Жыл бұрын

For me, this is one of the best videos you have ever made. Thanks!

@OneHak Жыл бұрын

Yellow Dog Linux was the go to distro if u had a mac

@pvtejeswarpanda6324 Жыл бұрын

I think this is by far the best and most unique video from "The Linux Experiment"!

@AlexKodek Жыл бұрын

I fell in love with Slackware in the late 90s ... then I used M$ Windows NT, XP and 7 for a while, finally giving up on it completely and moved back to Slackware and never looked back since :) and now I can't overstate how much I ADORE Slackware ... it is simple and neat and IT WORKS while it is also very educational ... therefore SLACKWARE FOREVER!!! :)

@UlrichHoltzhausen Жыл бұрын

I will always have a soft spot for Debian. Ran it for several years as my only OS as a teenager after migrating from Ubuntu. Ran it with XFCE after a barebones netinstall and back then used aptitude the terminal GUI to install XFCE and other software. Was such a nice way to learn things. Audio not working, install alsa, etc.

@send2gl Жыл бұрын

I started with Mandrake, switched to Ubuntu but currently using MX and Arch.

@tonysheerness2427 Жыл бұрын

Unless you are taught computer sciences at school or college then an easy distro is what you want. Man pages for example are written for computer scientists, most people would be scratching their head of what to do when a list of commands and syntaxes is displayed.

@LocovsworldNL Жыл бұрын

i loved slackware. I wonder if Patrick is still working on the project.

@TheGeekosDen Жыл бұрын

A lot of things are happening at SUSE/OpenSUSE right now. New CEO who is a RedHat veteran, new ALP OS on the horizon thay will take over OpenSUSE Leap, MicroOS rising as well as OpenSUSE TumbleWeed popularity SKYROCKETING in download this year. 2023/2024 might be the year of SUSE/OpenSUSE. 1994-2024!

@ArniesTech Жыл бұрын

As a German I am especially proud of SuSE and the KDE Project 💪

@stancooper5436 Жыл бұрын

Didn't know KDE was of German origin. IMO KDE Plasma is without doubt the finest and most advanced desktop on the planet.

@martinvandenbroek2532 Жыл бұрын

@@stancooper5436 Software Und System Entwickelung which is German for Software And System Development 😉

@stancooper5436 Жыл бұрын

@@martinvandenbroek2532 👍

@fionaneufeld7908 Жыл бұрын

@@martinvandenbroek2532 Software Und System Entwicklung.

@lukashavel7690 Жыл бұрын

I want Linux mint with Zorin OS spin of gnome! :) That would be my first choice for old windows laptops. :)

@frankhuurman3955 Жыл бұрын

same!

@zparihar Жыл бұрын

I think you meant you'll "leave" the tree puns alone 😂🎉

@genjii931 Жыл бұрын

I started with Yggdrasil in 1994, but quickly switched to Slackware. I stayed with Slackware for years, but I've tried out SUSE, RedHat, & Ubuntu, but my favorite was the very short-lived Sorcerer.

@dominix Жыл бұрын

I started linux with a yggdrasil with kernel 0.99 on it (on floppy disk) . it took one week to compile XFree86 for my PC...

@TheLinuxEXP Жыл бұрын

Haha yeah, compilation was rough at the time…

@anon_y_mousse Жыл бұрын

I will never use GNU when referring to the OS, and I think you pointed out a large part of why, Alpine. I think you should do a video or two on using Slackware. It's the best of all the distros on top of being the oldest.

@andromydous Жыл бұрын

From my experience (which started with Ubuntu 8.10), anything I might add would only be ancillary. Lutris and Heroic Games Launcher only exist because of Wine and Proton. While technically that goes for Steam too, Steam would have to be a project to mention. Their efforts have brought gaming in Linux so far forward. While Linux still doesn't have a huge market share, millions of people (or however many have bought and use the Steam Deck) are using Linux. That's still a huge leap.