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Old but cool finds on the Internet.


I have found this awesome web page. This allows the user to build and order a flash new PC. http://people.virginia.edu/~zl5y/cgi-bin/Store/web_store.cgi. This PC would run any office productivity or gaming app you could throw at it. A powerful Pentium MMX CPU, a 8MB graphics accelerator card, and 3.2 GB HDD. This is a beast of a PC. Just look at the options. Who would not want a new beastly gaming PC for Christmas, which is only 7 months away. I mean, a Pentium 400 MMX CPU and 128 MB of RAM is awesome. I am glad I found this website.

Very old computer advertisement.
Very old computer advertisement.

This is one of the best things to find on the Internet, an oldie but a goodie. I remember running Debian 3.0 on a Pentium 350 MMX and it ran very well too. Here is a screenshot of my old desktop, this is KDE 2.0. A very fast and usable desktop environment. There is a development process under way to port KDE 2.0 to modern Linux systems. This is quite cool, I would love to use an Ubuntu system with a KDE 2.0 codebase running on a modern Linux system. The look and feel of the various themes is sadly gone now , but I would love to see it come back. Would it be possible to have KDE 2.0 packages available for Ubuntu and Mint? That would make a great system for those of us who remember classic Linux systems. I also remember using Red Hat Linux with Gnome 1.0 and the Sawfish window manager. That was my first ever Linux system. This is what it looked like. http://www.securitronlinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/helix10.gif. Very nice and clean.

The same traditional Red Hat look as was used by further Red hat Linux distributions. And it came with nice software. Another nice screenshot, this is a typical Red hat 6.2 desktop, showing the Electric Eyes image viewer, which is no more. A nice write up about the installation experience. https://everythinglinux.org/redhat62/.

Debian 3.0 running on a Pentium 350 MMX. KDE 2.0 desktop.
Debian 3.0 running on a Pentium 350 MMX.

Anyway, this site I found is very cool, good way to customize an old PC and see exactly what hardware went with what in the old days.


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