Blast from the past

Spotted this guy after going through an old box of CDs.

Crazy that this was only 6 years ago

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16 Comments

MossyFeathers@pawb.social · 37 pts · 1y (2 replies)

QUICK, IS IT DEBIAN, DREAMCAST, OR ESTROGEN

ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 15 pts · 1y

There's also a German game studio, and Dreamcast preventively used a blue spiral in Europe to prevent a trademark clash

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y

yes

webpack@ani.social · 28 pts · 1y

world of goo...

bitcrafter@programming.dev · 14 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And the cool thing is: not only were you able to install this 6 years ago, you were able to install it 16 years as well!

tetris11@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y

2009 was only 6 years ago, so I'm not sure what 1999 has to do with it :P

No joke -- Debian is a treasure trove of archival releases. Ask any other distro if they still have stable tarballs from kernel v2, and the answer will simply be "no".

https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 1y

Lenny has landed!

Damn it. They misspelled our platform name 😩

dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y

It looks like estradiol valerate packaging

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com · 7 pts · 1y

I would frame it

17lifers@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y

tux be starin'

dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Whoa. They were doing DVD-ROM distros as late as '09?!

tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y

https://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/archive/

In the days of Woody (3.0), we started producing DVDs reliably for every release from r5 onwards. Later releases included both CDs and DVDs as a matter of course.

Starting with Etch (4.0), we started making multi-architecture CDs/DVDs which would boot and allow for installation on more than one type of computer.

Starting with Lenny (5.0), we added Blu-ray (BD) images, downloadable only in jigdo format for the sake of mirror space and bandwidth. We also regularly produced live images - bootable images that run completely from the CD/DVD/USB stick and do not need to be installed to your hard disk. (More details...)

Starting with Squeeze (6.0), we started building CDs and DVDs for kfreebsd-amd64 and kfreebsd-i386, marking the first released non-Linux port of Debian.

Goten@piefed.social · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

what a ugly tux xD

data1701d@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I mean, at least it’s not an AI slop Tux on a clickbait article that says, ā€œForget Windows 11 - [INSERT OBSCURE, BORDLINE USELESS DISTRO THAT WON’T LAST TWO YEARS] cured my cancerā€.

Like, I love Linux, and obscure distros have their place (I’d be cool with a review), but then there’s those horrible articles that mirror the overall devolution into soullessness that the internet has become.

On another note, those same sites with articles like, ā€œForget Windows 11 - Windows XP 2025 Classic Edition Ultimate is what we needā€, with UI mockups where I’d rather cut off my right hand with a circle saw than use them if they were real.

Goten@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

slop is bad and that i always ignored, even if it came from humans or now ai. i like good ai.

data1701d@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y

Personally, I believe there barely is such a thing as ā€œgood AIā€ - I have a dislike of image and audio generation; while I avoid LLMs, I admit they have their occasional uses.