Miss old-school Linux? This distro will take you back to the early 2000s

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET To this day, I can still remember the first time I logged into Linux and how it looked. It was Caldera Open Linux 1.0 with the Fvwm95 desktop. It was ugly (even at the time) and completely different from any desktop I'd used. At the same time, it was a lot of fun learning something completely different while also discovering what a truly stable operating system could be. It's been a long, long time since those first steps, and every so often, I feel the need to harken back to those days, even if only to remind myself how far the operating system has come. Also: The best old-school Linux window managers that still hold up Recently, I stumbled upon Exe GNU Linux and, as usual, my curiosity was piqued. This distribution is based on Devuan GNU/Linux and uses the Trinity Desktop (which is a fork of KDE 3.5). The reason you might be interested in Trinity is that it was forked from the version of KDE prior to it becoming KDE Plasma. So, if you wa ... Read full article.