Enjoying 1990's Linux on an $8 PC From 1995!

In this video, I found this Packard Bell Axcel 831CDT at a thrift store for $8 and when i took it home, it booted to SUSE Linux 7.0! So in this video i restored this 90's machine and put Red Hat Linux 5.2 on it! its been lots of fun to play with so far!

SYSTEM SPECS
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System: Packard Bell Axcel 831CDT
CPU: 100MHz Intel Pentium
RAM: 32mb 72-pin SIMM
Graphics: Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 1mb
OS: Red Hat Linux 5.2

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[abbeyk]

Alternate title: Ionic struggles with CRT refresh rates for 20 minutes

[Vlad-]

Aw man, it broke my heart when you overwrote the disk. Some historical and important/irreplaceable media might had been lost!

[RobertoRubio-zm]

Seeing that Red Hat box was like going back to my first date. Fell inlove with Linux in the late 90s and this love is still strong. 😂

[adamweb]

This is my exact memory of 90's Linux, spending 4 days trying to get X11 to start correctly lmao 😂

[jennika]

Linux Desktop really has come such a long way. Thanks for this look back!

[satokotsu]

babe wake up the 80tb dual xeon 2697 server guy uploaded

[ThePressurizer]

Whoah, I saw XFCE there. I never knew it was this old.

[adwaitagnome]

BitchX is an IRC client, almost the de facto one on GNU/Linux systems back in the day.

[MaseTheAce]

This was fun to watch. I recently started getting into learning about Linux and all the different distros that are available. I even managed to install Mint on a new Dell laptop I bought not too long ago. It's cool to see how Linux looked back then compared to how it is today.

[TRLTheRandomLab]

19:40 actually reveals what this computer was used for, it was a control unit for a ham radio repeater, with one of its duties being it's hourly IDing of it's callsign

[Max_Mustermann]

$8 isn't bad considering the crazy prices Pentium PCs are going for at the moment.

[tronus]

Memories of my old redhat rig in 98. Turned on xsnow and headed to the relatives for Christmas. Came back and felt all warm and fuzzy in front of my snowy desktop :)

[adampippert]

This is so cool to see out in the wild. Red Hat Linux 5.2 was my first distribution, and I still remember my roommate trying to convince me to get a CD and put it on an old scrap machine to try it out.

I worked at installfest at the university and managed to get a copy of the CD, and afterwards it became my standard distribution. 20 years later, I’d finally come full circle back to becoming an employee at Red Hat, and now I’ve been here almost 6 years.

[BlueRidgeCritter]

Two suggestions: I remember this machine fairly well, with your hard drive, that thing still used the old cables, You need to make sure the jumpers on the back of the drive were correct for how it was plugged into the motherboard. If you don't, or should I say didn't, lol, it simply would not see the hard drive. Second thing, your cmos battery was dead. They did some really weird stuff when that battery died, besides just forgetting the time and date. I would have changed that right off the bat. Seeing Suse on there was so exciting and brought back so many memories. That distro was in my opinion the best at the time, the installer was almost perfect.

[DJPenguino]

Redhat 5.2 was my first linux distro I bought and tried. That was way back in early 1999.

[RaulWhite]

17:29 Did you just blur how to exit vim?

[klingoncowboy]

A few years ago my brother found a late 90s PC left at the e waste and well it followed him home... EVERY does retro windows pcs so he decided to build a retro Linux machine instead and has documented it on Gaming on Linux

[vidasporsa]

Trip to memory lane... how much time I had wasted trying to install those old flavors of Linux on old hardware... and I still have a working 486/DX4! Kudos man!

[Marmalard]

I remember in the early 2000s the “windows” modems” wouldn’t work on Linux and you had to go out a buy a proper “hardware modem”

[HannoImmelman]

Open suse lets gooo. The most underrated linux distro.