Frankly, even with the issues you had with the hard drive being misdirected, this looks a heck of a lot simpler than the first Linux install I remember doing around 1995. Back then you had to recompile the kernel if you wanted support for undetected hardware!

@elgato7557

2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine compiling the modern Linux kernel on a 90's PC 🤣 you would have great grandkids before it's complete

@AlexRamosDrTaz

2 жыл бұрын

Oh gawd... I recall having to do that after spending four days downloading enough of Slackware on a 56k modem at home early in 1998 LOL! Never again! (No, but seriously...I would if I needed to but haven't compiled a kernel since I began using Debian in the early 2000s... Ubuntu and then Ubuntu Studio later.)

@LeonTichy

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like modern day 3D printing community, pretty cool

@cnr_0778

2 жыл бұрын

@@elgato7557 it's not too bad. Linux 0.9 or something takes roughly 30 minutes to compile on a 386.

@antikz3731

2 жыл бұрын

I hate the word kernel now. Lol it used to mean a delicious popcorn brand. Now it means, oh hey! Here's 420 updates because the new kernel MUST BE INSTALLED!!! OR DIE!!! hahahaha

2000s: Windows-like Linux distro 2020s: Windows Subsystem for Linux. Full circle?

@JeffreyPiatt

2 жыл бұрын

The company had a change in management. There was always a Unix subsystem for Windows

@l4nzo0

2 жыл бұрын

MONDYSP

@vwestlife

2 жыл бұрын

I've always been irked by that name, because it's actually a Linux subsystem for Windows, not the other way around. But IBM pulled that trick first, with "OS/2 for Windows" which was actually Windows for OS/2.

@RodrigoBadin

2 жыл бұрын

@@vwestlife You are calling about Microsoft. The company who put the 32bit DLLs on SysWOW64 and the 64bit DLLs on System32 lol

@wileysneak

2 жыл бұрын

@@vwestlife its easier to swallow if you consider the name "Windows Subsystem" to be just what they call an OS running virtulized on Windows - so Windows Subsystem for Linux/Android is just Windows Subsystem [which runs] Linux & Windows Subsystem [which runs] Android

This video puts an emphasis on Windows Refund day (back in 1999). I really don't think Linux distros got more user friendly until the early 2010's with more community support.

OMG! I had thought the download for this was lost forever! This was the first district I ever used. Thanks for putting together this video!

I remember using this for a while as a teenager. I was always screwing up my computer trying new OS’s. The great thing about this was that it didn’t mess with the mbr or Windows. If I messed it up I could just uninstall and reinstall WinLinux instead of formatting the drive and reinstalling everything. It wasn’t practical as a full time OS, but it was useful to me because it helped me learn. I remember spending forever trying to get it to play nice with my sound card though.

Why didn't they just call it Winux, would've been way better...

@aprofondir

2 жыл бұрын

Microsoft would've been mad

@MondySpartan

2 жыл бұрын

@@aprofondir It’s what they were with Lindows. They ordered them to change their distro name to Linspire.

@Jack-pc9sp

8 ай бұрын

​@@MondySpartan lmao Microsoft didn't win shit and actually paid money out in a settlement to Lindows

@evilumski2

8 ай бұрын

I dont really think people where pc smart back then, today winux would make Perfect sense imo :P

@thealien_ali3382

7 ай бұрын

I like this hairy guy

By the way, Michael, BeOS 5 Personal had an installer just like WinLinux2000, allowing you to boot into it from Windows or floppy diskette too. It's a fun experience if you haven't done so already.

@negirno

2 жыл бұрын

Not only that, but that Personal Edition could be converted to a full-fledged dual boot by allocating empty space on your drive with a partition manager, booting into BeOS with the floppy, create a new BeFS partition, then copy/clone the whole system there and enable the boot manager. After that, you can boot into that and not needing the floppy and the image on the Windows partition. I actually did this back in 2000.

@kbhasi

2 жыл бұрын

Yep! But I should point out the last time I checked, both BeOS downloads on WinWorld were actually of modified versions that had been mislabeled. If Michael is reading this, I want to point out that I do have the install file!

@KittyFae-

2 жыл бұрын

For sure, I used BeOS instead of Windows for a while because my winmodem was way faster in Be than Win.

@MegaManNeo

2 жыл бұрын

@@negirno Oh wow. I didn't know that until I just read your comment 👀

@negirno

2 жыл бұрын

@@KittyFae- I've alap tried to go to the Internet on BeOS, my internal modem connected, but there weren't any flow of bits sadly, so I just downloaded stuff on Windows.

I really didn't know that there were linux distros and desktops in the late 90s/early 2000s which were specifically made for windows users coming over to linux, except the kde desktop ,while nowadays its pretty common to see these types of distros. It's just really intresting to see how linux has evolved over the years. Keep up with the great content Michael MJD!

As an active kde user this makes amazed at how passionate some of the Linux community is at keeping projects running near indefinitely.

Your videos are for people from 90s who used time travel to come here. Really appreciate your content man 😆

@AaronOfMpls

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, some of us time-traveled from earlier eras than that ... at the usual 1 second per second 🙂

This was my very first exposure with Linux. I spent countless hours trying to get this stupid thing to work on the family computer, and I had no idea at the time that this was the seed of what would become a career in Linux and HPC systems. So much nostalgia. Thanks for covering this.

@SkynetCyb

7 ай бұрын

Did you end up making it work?

1. Around that time there was a QNX version (yes, the OS that got later bought by Blackberry) that too could be installed and started via Windows 98. 2. The German fli4l Linux distribution (which was a specialised router/networking distribution) had a Windows-Setup where you would configure the system and it would create a self-contained bootable floppy disk.

@CathrineMacNiel

2 жыл бұрын

QNX was so cool. I loved the looks and the fact that it was a realtime OS.

@drelius

10 ай бұрын

@@CathrineMacNiel one of the best GUIs

@CathrineMacNiel

10 ай бұрын

@@drelius it was damn beautiful and snappy as well.

Oh, man. Xmms was basically the Winamp of Linux. It even supported the skins! It was later superseded by Audacious which also kept the skins until their 2.0 version.

@MegaManNeo

2 жыл бұрын

You can still XMMS off repos 'til this day though. I am rather minimalistic these days, all my music sits on my NAS and I use either Cantata (which uses mpd as its backend), moc or Sayonara to listen to it. Back then, Amarok1.4 was my cup of tea.

@mikeonthecomputer

2 жыл бұрын

Audacious never removed Winamp skins support.

@DaVince21

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeonthecomputer Oh that's great, I didn't know that! Honestly I also like their new interface with standard elements so I never bothered to look.

@DaVince21

2 жыл бұрын

@@atomyiik Who, some of the Audacious devs or the owners of the Winamp trademark?

Obligatory "always something goes wrong in MJD videos" the fact that it put the Linux filesystem right out on the disk rather than use a loopback was interesting

A couple observations as a novice Linux user: 1. During setup it appears to be copying the /dev/ files. Those aren’t actual files, but created by the kernel, represented as a file. 2. In modern Linux you never refer to drives by /dev/sda, there’s a change the lettering may change. You’d refer to the uuid of the device.

@etopowertwon

2 жыл бұрын

TBF back then, in kernel 2.2, /dev/ was the usual directory with actual files of special types (block device or character device) created with mknod utlity. It was prepopulated with hda1, hda2, hdb1, hdb2.... sda.... etc. There were not uuid links because, well, nobody created them. devfs was added later, but it was not that popuar and was soon replaced with udev which is still used today.

This actually looks pretty cool, a shame about the video drivers though

@arnox4554

2 жыл бұрын

@Pith Helmet The Nvidia drivers site reports that there is indeed a valid driver for it for Linux 32-bit though. Surprisingly up to date too, considering. They kept up driver development for it all the way to 2013.

@Ayuraos

2 жыл бұрын

Should of been called Winux 2000

@jkeelsnc

2 жыл бұрын

And the fact that it didn’t even support a usb mouse out of the box. Windows and Mac etc already supported this at that time.

I loved WinLinuix. Is was the first distro I ran that actually supported all my drivers perfectly. I had to wait for LInux Mint for me to have a flawless linux install

Speaking of Wubi, I’d be pretty interested in a video about that. I briefly used Ubuntu circa 2006, don’t think I ended up going through Wubi but even at the time it was a pretty intriguing concept to me.

@AlexRamosDrTaz

2 жыл бұрын

I tried wubi when I first installed Ubuntu in 2008, but after a few tries, simply figured out how to install Ubuntu without it, creating the typical partitions of /, /home and the swap partition.

@IkarusKommt

2 жыл бұрын

Wubi just creates a file with the Linux filesystem on a Windows partition and sets up Grub to mount it and boot from it.

@sadmac356

2 жыл бұрын

I actually used it back in like 2012-2013 ish, and well…it was good for what I was doing at the time

Now lets see how this runs alongside windows 10 or 11. But I really have to say if this was someone's first encounter with linux and was marketed as easy. They would have probably ran for the hills and never looked back.

@FubarMike

2 жыл бұрын

@@simonsays2159 maybe the 2002 or 2003 versions. Presumably they would be made with xp in mind and maybe running win10 with legacy bios would work.

@craigmurray4746

2 жыл бұрын

@@FubarMike I think part of the process as well is that you need to be using a FAT32 system drive, doubt whatever kernel version in those early years could boot off an NTFS partition as used by XP

imagine if the entire market would be led by open source software. microsoft is genuinely holding tech progress back

@MrGamelover23

8 ай бұрын

Nobody pays for open source software, so it would never lead the market.

@mexikanecfilda

8 ай бұрын

@@MrGamelover23 a big part of servers run on linux, even microsoft's servers like azure, amazon's servers run on linux aswell. So it clearly can lead the market. old comment by the way

@MrGamelover23

8 ай бұрын

@@mexikanecfilda That's because there was actually money in servers. There's no money in the Linux desktop. So the only company actually pouring any real effort into making it usable for normal people is Valve. The market can't be led by something that's almost entirely built on volunteer efforts. That's why desktop Linux will never take over Windows.

@mexikanecfilda

8 ай бұрын

@@MrGamelover23 fair point i guess

@MrGamelover23

8 ай бұрын

@@mexikanecfilda It really is a darn shame. Linux only ever excelled where there was actual money to be made from pedaling it. People using UNIX workstations could have all the software they needed on computers that cost half the price if they switched to Red Hat. Servers charge a monthly or yearly subscription and in turn, they get a solid product for their use case and everyone wins. With desktop users, nobody's paying for a Linux distro, and the software they need doesn't work on it, so there's no money to made from it. The only exception is Valve. They're the only major company selling a desktop distro for regular users. And in turn, they end up pouring money and time into making Linux better for everyone. If multiple companies had been doing this from the beginning, then desktop Linux would be where server Linux is now.

i feel like michael is gonna make his amazing "nft" career everytime he installs linux into a machine

I used this distribution for a long time on my old 486 with Windows 98, it worked perfectly... it was my first experience with Linux since I didn't have another computer... this distribution was based on Slackware...

I remember graphics issues like these in and around the year 2000 with XFree86. Nice trip down memory lane.

16:34 the micheal mhd nft sequel we all wanted

I absolutely love the KDE version 1 aesthetic. Wasn't there supposed to be an official recreation of KDE 1 at some point or am I imagining it?

@rubidium1948

2 жыл бұрын

It’s possible but I don’t see any reason they’d recreate it officially considering how customizable it is for the end-user other than to act as a little “Thanks for these many years of support!” from the devs.

@kbhasi

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, there was OTDE, but that project was abandoned or discontinued if I recall correctly. The closest things I could think of to that would be to mod Plasma 5.x or Trinity R14.x to look like KDE 1.1.

@gymnasiast90

2 жыл бұрын

I think they re-released v1 a few years ago to celebrate its 20th(?) anniversary. (With code modifications to make it compile on modern systems.)

@BringMayFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it did get one. There's also one for KDE 2.

good color choices in the artwork.

Yo when I DMed yout about this I didn't expect to see a video so soon. Awesome man. Thanks for making a video on it.

Awesome video, Michael!

Found you randomly on KZread! Love your videos. Greetings from Germany

Given how modular Linux is, I wonder why they've never implemented a compatibility layer so it can run we Windows apps natively out of the box. As in, why can't WINE be turned into a kernel module?

@vascomanteigas9433

7 ай бұрын

Security. It is a long dogma to avoid kernel modules as possible since it is a security pitfall. Wine only supports the User Mode of Windows environment and mimics the Windows NT implementation. The kernel mode of Windows NT exists on Wine only as a bridge for Linux native services, and except some specific cases no Windows drivers will run on Wine. The rare exceptions are the serial/parallel legacy or over USB devices which is fairy emulated by Wineserver (the User/kernel mode bridge), and virtual device drivers either by proxy (which enables NVIDIA CUDA for examples) or wraps Over native Linux drivers (like the BattleEye for Wine), which need to be made.

The way that distro performs speaks for early 2000's Linux given your hardware isn't compatible. I had no issues with Knoppix 3.7 back in late 2003 to run on my MMX200 with 48M RAM, maybe you want to look into that for fun? Could upload the ISO I did from my CD too. That WinLinux installer really gives me Wubi vibes too, used Wubi to install Ubuntu 8.04 to my Vista machine which ran great and oddly enough was also the only way up until that point to install any other operating system on that machine. Fun times indeed.

@travelthetropics6190

2 жыл бұрын

Knoppix was great back then, I made a remastered livecd with my modem drivers etc

@MegaManNeo

2 жыл бұрын

@@travelthetropics6190 It was so much fun to experience such a thing in the first place for the first time simply by putting a CD in the drive and rebooting the PC! Sure it can be done just like that nowadays but it's just not the same anymore. Not crying for nostalgia here necessary, just pointing out that the way we interact and more especially how I use to use Linux changed ever since then. Given just with many programs Knoppix shipped and what has been possible, this was a blast for me and I loved doing stuff on my Windows 98 or later XP installation and doing other things in Knoppix just because it was a thing.

I remember not knowing what I was doing like many and stumbling upon WinLinux 2000. It worked, but that loop back filesystem magic they did was unfortunately wicked slow. The fun part was downloading it at 28.8. The good ole days.

Yes! There is something worse the open, free and community driven software of the 90s. That is the terrible driver support and virtually non-existent hardware support that Linux had in the 90s.

@ChristopherGray00

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't because linux was open, it was because desktop linux was in its absolute infancy at the time, i would even consider pre 2002 as "beta stage" for the grand majority of distros.

@slightlyevolved

8 ай бұрын

​@@ChristopherGray00I would argue that Linux on the Desktop didn't *REALLY* become a thing until Ubuntu launched. Say what you will about it, but it did a *lot* to popularize Linux in the mass' mind. For the Gnerds among us, I suppose we did have RedHat, Suse, and, Gentoo/Arch. Really, it seems like desktop Linux grew up with the release of GNOME 2. The last bastion of true Linux suckedness was WiFi and GPU drivers....

@ChristopherGray00

8 ай бұрын

@@slightlyevolved nah i gotta generally agree on that, ubuntu was when, at least to me definitely seemed like it genuinely started as a desktop system. but man desktop linux has evolved so, so far since then, it is actually incredible.

@KennyZOfficial

7 ай бұрын

​@@slightlyevolvedi use Void Linux it's a distro for everything, it's amazing but it's harder to install and somethings for new users, i never had the chance to have a nice resolution in windows, now in linux i made a script myself in the init to get 1920x1080 as an option in my display configuration and that's really amazing you could even make another resolution like 3800x2160 that would be 4k, it's amazing to be honest the way you can modify the OS with your hands

@bronwaith

6 ай бұрын

@@slightlyevolved oh and audio drives ;~;

Oh man this took me back. WinLinux 2000 was my first introduction to Linux back when my time on the computer and what I was allowed to do on it were both restricted.. This was the safest way to not get in trouble and try/learn something new.. There was some confusion about Linux being "just like windows" as I was a first time user so when introduced to more traditional distros later there was still a bit of a learning curve but it definitely was a head start over my peers who had only ever used windows or pre-osx and even early osx mac.. PS: If I recall - XMMS is like a clone of Nullsoft's WinAmp if that helps :)

I remember buying a disk with this off ebay in the early 2000's. It was a pc repair disk, but just a bootable linux disk. I literally paid for a free distro

I feel like I vaguely remember this distro, however after trying to install Slackware sometime around '99 on a Packard Bell with nothing but a friend and a stack of how tos printed out I had had my fill of Linux for a few more years still at that point. lol

I'm guessing it would be too difficult to get a working graphics driver on WinLinux, right? It would be cool to get the graphics working correctly.

@etopowertwon

2 жыл бұрын

You need something like S3 card, which were supported by XF86 in 1999. Back then these cards were absolute beasts. With a special DOS player and S3 card I could watch divx movie on pentium 100, which lagged in every windows player.

This is such a good representation of the general desktop Linux experience back then

Oh, that old KDE profile icon for root is such a cool one, it fits nicely with the meaning of the root account.

@QuantumScratcher

2 жыл бұрын

Unlike "root@win98:~#".

1:59 Quick Note : Wubi is still maintained under the name WubiUEFI.

20:21 - that screensaver preview looks great. Jackson Pollock would be proud.

I've managed to install this back then and it's a little comforting that I wasn't the only one who gave up because of that kernel panic...

Would have loved to see this in full colour. It kinda blows my mind to see how much remains in Linux to this very day, namely the directory structure, "decompressing the kernel" message in some distros, and programs like GIMP and KDE.

I knew there was something that kept me from ever trying this OS distro out. That darn kernel panic! That and the fact that at that time my Trident GUI9550TV 4MB card was not supported. Later in life I could afford a used ATI Rage Pro 8MB and 4MB card and Linux started working for me. But sadly, not WinLinux2000. I have found WinLinux2001 and 2003 which has 2 CDs. For your Limitation of 16 Colors, you would have been better off with a Window manager like FVWM or MWM which are very basic but where popular UNIX windowing environments that worked very well with grayscale and low color and low resolution displays. I noticed that you did not test the sound? I assume like the display, this version did not detect your sound card or Ethernet? What display card and sound card and ethernet is in your $5 Win98 PC anyway?

@FoxyAnimater

2 жыл бұрын

I believe that he has gone over that all in older videos on his KZread channel, I personally have seen a lot of the story of this machine. Good luck trying to find it

@pianokeyjoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@FoxyAnimater lol, thanks. Possibly one of his first videos if it is still in his list.

@craigmurray4746

2 жыл бұрын

There's a GeForce FX 5200 in this PC currently, you can see the vBIOS screen at one point in the vid. Sound is onboard I think

@pianokeyjoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigmurray4746 Thankyou so much for answering! Ok, I figured because the versions of Linux BEFORE 2002(Windows XP era)just would not work right graphically with those newer cards and with the cheap onboard either. I found out the versions of Linux from 1999 to 2001 worked great with Soundblaster 16/32 and ATI rage pro cards. Now for onboard graphics, the INTEL 810 and 815 chipset graphics worked with the Linux from late 2000-2001. I have to say it was a very nit picky time for Xfree86! I remember when you could use Framebuffer or simple VGA16 or SVGA driver to get X to work but with my recent experiences trying to use my OLD Linux distros from that era on some of my P3 and P2 machines with different VGA cards, that choosing those generic drivers does NOT work. The Nvidia FX5200 and ATI Rage 128 cards seem to be P3 era cards from DELL and HP that came in closer to the time XP pro came out and indeed Xfree86 3.x just was not going to work with them. Now when Xfree86 4.x came out and kernel 2.4 came out? Things in the Linux world were finally getting serious enough to be able to switch from Windows to LINUX! Finally! More hardware compatibility..

XMMS brings back memories. Also, TOTALLY not surprised the nvidia card isn't working properly.

while i can see why Windows is dominating the market share , and while i know Linux was hard to install and work with back then ... i am 100% happy with my Switch to Linux so i'm glad to see more videos about like this , keep up the good vids Micheal

@arnox4554

2 жыл бұрын

Windows dominated (past tense) the marketshare because from Windows 2000 and up, they were genuinely great operating systems. There wasn't really a need to switch... Until Windows 10 and 11.

@negirno

2 жыл бұрын

@@arnox4554 What you say is kind of funny, because while Windows 2000 was beloved by power users, XP was hated because of the phone-in activation and Fisher-Price UI among other things. Windows 95 was also hated back then when it was new because a lot of geek and demoscene stuff didn't work on it.

@arnox4554

2 жыл бұрын

@@negirno "XP was hated because of the phone-in activation" This is kind of understandable. In Microsoft's defense though, it was ABSURDLY easy to pirate Windows back before XP, and Windows development doesn't come free. It cost a shit-ton of money and a lot of time and experience to develop. And also importantly, you could activate Windows entirely offline just with a phone call as you've already said (even if it was admittedly kind of a pain in the ass for everyone involved), and if I recall correctly, as long as you had a valid key of SOME kind, you could keep it activated indefinitely offline as well. "and Fisher-Price UI" This complaint I don't get because XP made it super easy to switch it back to the original Windows 2000 theme and even offered the classic Windows 98 start menu style.

I love this videos I haven't seen it yet but I know I'll like it

I love your videos, Michael! Thanks for always making outstanding and engaging content.

good times.. I remember when that came out.. time to begin the weekend.

Interesting to see a distro for Windows users from back then. I switched to Manjaro Linux myself from Win7 in part because the UI was already pretty Windows-like, and didn't take much fiddling to get it laid out how I want it. (Though I chose the XFCE version instead of KDE.) Neat idea too, to have it launch from a DOS .exe file so you don't have to repartition or anything. Especially since a bootable USB stick wasn't really an option yet. Though I think I'm with that reviewer; I might've given up too if I couldn't Google up a solution to that kernel panic. 😕 In any case, nicely done 😎 -- and shame about that (lack of) video driver. Linux driver support sure has come a _long_ way since the 90s!

@boriszakharin3189

2 жыл бұрын

The DOS exe and UMSDOS filesystem was very common for Linux distros back then if you didn't want to partition your HD and didn't mind the super-slow performance.

This video perfectly illustrates why nearly every beginner or intermediate computer user who had the wherewithal to even try Linux quickly abandoned it and returned to Windows.

Always reassuring to see a series of typos on your new OS's installation screens

Bit drunk to elaborate much, but I've using Linux since the early 2000s. Never used this, but remember that the idea of booting from a FAT partition ain't new: there where those distros who booted from DOS, and even one from a boot floppy (you could install it, and use a second floppy for Xfree86/additional stuff. Included games like lode runner too). I used that one and was pretty good on a w95 Pentium 166 laptop.

Back in the day I used to use GNU-UNIX for windows. Not sure if it still exists. It ran Unix commands really fast on Windows. We used to use it to compare files on two servers to make sure they were in sync. This was a task Windows or DOS would take hours but Unix could do in minutes.

This was revolutionary back then...

If that would've been my first experience with Linux, I'd probably run straight back to good old safe haven Windows... that kernel panic and the driver issue could really scare away beginners. But luckily Wubi was around to experiment with when I started to get interested in Linux, and it was very much a help, as I haven't had much experience with partitioning back then, and was afraid of data loss, so it was an ideal solution for me. That was in 2008, and I've been mostly converted to Linux by now, using Windows only for gaming and some specific softwares. I think someone should resurrect Wubi to 'lure' new users into the Linux world by a safe and easy dual boot installation.

is there *NO* linux video driver that can be installed? Even something from another KDE revision? I'd love to see this linux setup fully kitted out and playing the best it can. It'd be fun to see all the included features working and looking and sounding like they were supposed to.

@robmcleod2876

2 жыл бұрын

Would rely on the right kernel module being available and X knowing what to do with it. I don't miss this era of Linux at all!

@Vlad-1986

2 жыл бұрын

nah, it is not that way. The Linux kernel is the one handling the video, and all acceleration, colours, etc to KDE or whatever program needs it. If the Kernel is not detecting the drivers (or they are not compiled on it), there is nothing KDE or any other Desktop environment can do, but run into "basic VGA mode" and cross the fingers the video card supports those standards. I wonder if that can be done nowadays...

@craigmurray4746

2 жыл бұрын

Since this is a Geforce FX 5200, doubt you'd have much luck trying to get it running on such an old Linux kernel. The FX cards came out about what, 5-6 years after this distro?

@Vlad-1986

2 жыл бұрын

@@craigmurray4746 I wonder if that could at least support SVGA tho

@craigmurray4746

2 жыл бұрын

@@Vlad-1986 The card itself supports it of course, but how you would configure this prehistoric version of the X server to do that is far, far beyond me. All I know is that those were the early days and that things like a paid product called Accelerated X was available to support cards the X server didn't at the time

Back then many people were still on a dialup connection and you can imagine downloading an ISO would seem to take eternity!

the year 2000 is going to be the year of the linux desktop

XMMS was basically a WinAmp clone that used to be called x11amp.

I used to run it back in the day I still have a CD of this.

Since we both have pretty much the same Pentium 3 Gateway(mine is the Pentium 3 1Ghz version) with the 810 chipset, I'm assuming you still have one of the newer graphic cards installed that was made after 1999. You could try to enable your onboard graphics card and use the generic SVGA drivers to get higher colors and screen resolutions. WinLinux 2000 detected my RIVA TNT 2 but wouldn't load into X, I switched to the generic SVGA drivers and it loaded the desktop no problems. The onboard graphics was going to be my fallback option if I couldn't get running on the dedicated graphics card. All you need to do now is install BeOS R5 PE and you can have 3 OSes running on 1 FAT32 partition.

@michaelmjd FYI, in case nobody else has mentioned it, the numbers after the kernel panics are time stamps (3.01 seconds, 8.02 seconds, etc.) from startup; they have no other meaning other than giving you an idea of where to look in the logs for information. Yeah I know this is super late, but whatever.

If only we had something like this today...

XMMS rings a bell, there's a chance I used that as some point, though I recall more using Banshee and... something else similar to Banshee. Not been using Linux much since I got a new laptop though.

This reminds me a lot of ZipSlack. It basically could be extracted to a folder on a Windows 98 PC and would boot similarly by dropping into DOS mode to get exclusive access and start the OS.

Thanks👍🏻.

Very Cool!

Oh man this is super off topic but are those Creative speakers? If so nice choice of hardware. I believe their the same ones I've been using since 2018.

i installed win linux one time its a fun video brings back memories

nifty, as a daily linux driver, I had no idea this was a thing back in the days of win 98

Nice vid :)

WinLinux 2000, a precursor to Zorin OS. I have been working on windows for a long time. In order to operate Linux OS with Windows compatibility, Zorin OS is Ideal. I'm a user of Both Windows and Zorin OS.

An mjd tech tip approved 👍👍👍👍👍

I had a friend that called netscape "nutscrape." ...I miss the 90s and 2000s. Ah, better times.

Cool vid

Haven't seen this before. Linux sure has improved since then!

Ancient linux distros like these are really fascinating. It would be interesting if you could try Mandrake Linux as well

@robmcleod2876

2 жыл бұрын

I used mandrake for a while at its peak. Even bought an external dialup modem to use instead of my internal winmodem. Things are so much better in Linux these days

@SomeBlokeOrWhatever

10 ай бұрын

*Aw man* Mandrake Linux was the first Linux I used on my father's computer. Fun stuff.

2005 will be the year of the linux desktop!

The backgrounds are interesting. I know them from when I was doing research on some odd backgrounds I found on a modded Xbox Original menu that had them in the files.

@AKuld

Жыл бұрын

They are meant to be like looping textures. I always wanted to use them for a game cause they seem interesting

Lets go a new mjd vid

Probably, this is the thing that gave birth to Wubi installer for Ubuntu. Thus, it's the gimmick from which I have begun learning Linux at all. Nice work!

anothor top quality mjd video

Good stuff

I wish I had known about this. I had to install Slackware by asking for help on IRC which meant reinstalling Windows every time I had a question about an error or what fdisk sequence I should use to not delete Windows.

WinLinux reminds me of a Native virtual Machine in a sense that it runs right inside of Windows. I would bet that WinLinux2000 runs either version 1.1 or version 2 of K-Desktop environment depending when WinLinux2000 was released to the public. I wonder if there is away to load drivers to get stuff to work.

How did this compare to Lindows, before they got the smackdown? Maybe you can do a video on that at some point as well.

Very cool video. Could it work live from USB stick on PC with CPU 400mhz and 256mb ram? Is the browser working?

Nice!

Why didn't you show us the terminal, and what did it come packaged with? I'm pretty sure it was right next to the K button. Though good vid

XMMS, man that's way back, it's called audacious now, but i did not expect to see xmms on an mjd video

the power of combination

Hey, Michael MJD, I remember your google toolbar video and i have a latvian version of it even the installer in my temp folder! Would you like it?

20:43 that's chaos that I see lol

The goal of this reminds me of the infamous Lindows/Linspire failure. Will that ever be covered here?

8:46 the true linux experience!

Oh I adore those crunch wallpapers!! Does anyone know if there's a repository for them thats available on modern machines? I'd love to use them on my neocities site, but don't know enough to pull them from WinLinux myself lol

I have this version on one of my old pc's. installed it on 2002. still have the cd, never heard about updates or the Winlinux 2003 version. iteresting.

New video yay

Such a Kool desktop environment *wink