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12-24-2012, 01:13 PM
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Does anyone else ever run an old OS in a VM for nostalgia?
For some reason, I just love running Win2K. At this point, it would be madness to run that OS outside a VM, but I just love the look of that generation of OSes.
I guess I just get tired of all of these prettied up GUIs.
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12-24-2012, 02:24 PM
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I still run X11. Back in those days, 1987, long before KDE and GNOME, Linux was entirely CLI driven. Ahhh, good times!
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12-24-2012, 03:06 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 88keys
For some reason, I just love running Win2K. At this point, it would be madness to run that OS outside a VM, but I just love the look of that generation of OSes.
I guess I just get tired of all of these prettied up GUIs.
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Yea, but it gets old real quick and the VM gets deleted once you start noticing all of the shit that just doesn't work any longer.
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I still run X11. Back in those days, 1987, long before KDE and GNOME, Linux was entirely CLI driven. Ahhh, good times!
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That's TWM. X11 is an environment, protocol and a few other things but not a window manager. XFree86 (and now Xorg) just happens to include TWM as a sort of fallback/demo WM.
If you want to see a real WM that people used way back when take a look at CDE. If you want to see CLI driven Linux just hit ALT+F1 and log into the text console.
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12-24-2012, 03:12 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nothinman
If you want to see a real WM that people used way back when take a look at CDE.
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That sounded familiar to me, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. It was just open sourced this year. That's how I'd heard of it :^)
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12-24-2012, 03:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lxskllr
That sounded familiar to me, so I looked it up on Wikipedia. It was just open sourced this year. That's how I'd heard of it :^)
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It's yet another great example of a standard creation attempt being botched by lack of openness and freedom. They eventually realized this and opened it up, but who really cares 20 years later?
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12-24-2012, 04:04 PM
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I have Win2K, 98, and 3.11 VMs. Win2K runs faster in VM than host OS 
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