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Remember installing linux for the first time to try it out?

Remember discovering what a winmodem was…




Wow, I had forgotten about how disappointed I was when I found out about winmodems. That tempered my fascination with Linux fairly quickly at the time.


Hey, there was the ridiculously named 'Hand of god' theme with the titlebar on the side !

Good days ... running the ripple effect on the bottom ... bring me bling !


yes yes, the ripple effect. In those days people could hardly believe what they were seeing and all went like 'is THAT linux?'


And that sweet dramatic unveiling of the desktop, swishing across virtual desktops, funky pager, widgets...

Linux was so much fun and personal those days.


That was before we tried to make Linux a mass market OS.


Since you start the nostalgia train. I remember recompiling the kernel over and over again with different options and modules.

I remember the ripples and the flames on the logon screen. Downloading the latest source of E almost nightly. Spending time hanging out on #E.

Good times.


Most of my time in E16 was spent sitting patient and inert, waiting for someone to walk by my desk so I could impress them with the awesome window flipping and water animations. Well, that and posting endless screenshots of my setup to various forums. Whenever I'm feeling down I pour myself a drink and browse my "screenshots_2002" folder :)

> Remember discovering what a winmodem was...

I still have my first non-winmodem installed in my machine, though I haven't had an active phone line in my apartment for years... ahhh, nostalgia!


> Remember installing linux for the first time to try it out?

I am starting to think this will happen soon.


Remember BlueSteel? I'm using it right now. Still use the latest Enlightenment DR16 on all my Linux and Solaris boxes. It does everything I need a window manager to do.




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