Installing Red Hat Linux 8.0 on the $5 Windows 98 PC!

It's about time we do another Linux distro install on the 98 PC! Today we're taking a look at Red Hat 8.0, released in 2002. Huge thanks to David for sending this out to me!

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[dani.munoz.a]

Who would've thought that a single $5 purchase would bring so much interesting content to a channel?

[jbritain]

This channel is becoming like Druaga1 except you’re not high on weed and less stuff goes wrong

[JasperFoxo]

9:02 *ah yes i love holding my mouse like that*

[kbhasi]

1:26 Red Hat Linux wasn't really killed, it was just killed as a commercial product. It was merged into the Fedora project, starting with (if I recall correctly) RHL being reworked into Fedora Core, with the Fedora Linux Project being reworked into Fedora Extras. Eventually, both merged into just "Fedora". The Bluecurve visual style was dropped some years before both Core and Extras merged, in favour of the default visual styles for the desktop environment being used, with the only visible changes being distro branding where required, and the desktop background. (Edit 3 years later: also the menu button icon on some desktop environments)

On a side note, this reminds me of an open-source software project I had an idea to do, which would be an umbrella project for various projects resurrecting various old Linux visual styles and applications to work on modern desktop environments and distributions, alongside new original tools for configuring certain things.

[danikim]

As a Linux SysAdmin working mainly with RHEL, I'm blown away at how modern-looking and usable was Red Hat Linux in 2002. Coincidentally, the current version of RHEL is also 8 :)

[contournut]

RedHat 8.0 was how I was introduced to Linux. Absolutely blew me away.

[jesse]

I used RedHat a long time ago - back in the late 90s. It was probably my first introduction to Linux distributions.

[derekw]

Bluecurve is one of my favorite themes of all time. It was the best at looking the same on both Gtk and Qt applications and the UI elements were just so clean and smooth.

[michaelmclean]

You have got a lot of mileage out of that machine. Best investment I’ve ever seen on YouTube.

[tassaron]

Wow! All those old packages on a CD. I only started using Linux in 2010 so it's exciting seeing versions from before my time and what packages were still around back then ⌚

[IbrahimAhmed-mldk]

I watched this while wearing a red hat

[guy-uzoc]

Try installing Damn Small Linux on the 98 PC

[CalebHawn]

This is pretty cool! As someone who joined the Linux community not too long ago, I've never experienced an older distro like this. Pretty cool to see the history here, not only with Red Hat, but also with older versions of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice. Pretty neat!

[PaulNaama]

love your videos. i am 42 years old and i remember rh version 1. infact i am a rhce certified.
you should also do a gentoo video. i spent nights compiling gentoo. fun times.

[anon_y_mousse]

I still have all the discs for RH6, 7, 8, 9 sitting in a box. I remember that installer, it was so easy and slick considering the time period. I always pushed up the desktops to 12, have 12 function keys after all. That feature alone was enough to push me into Linux. Windows XP was what pushed me from dual booting to Linux only. Even though I don't still use Red Hat, it was by far the best experience back then. Was even able to get my garbage soft modem working with it, and when I changed to a hardware modem it worked with *zero* effort. Ah the sweet dulcet sounds of a dial up modem calling the ISP, how I miss them now.

[russellbrooks]

Cool. Brings back memories. Redhat 3 or 4 was how I got started with Linux on my old windows 98 PC.

[MarioLuigi]

After watching a bunch of Dankpods videos I have a new appreciation for the music you used right at the start of the video lol.

[leonjones]

Enjoyable explanation of Linux. Great pitch to this explaining.

[jargon]

Yay! I normally use arch and love this content! Thank you!! <3 <3

[ajrhodes]

Love the Linux vid!! Keep up the good work!!