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[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... I thought Lunix was invented by the infamous Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.

[–] dan@upvote.au 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's an old meme but it checks out. Older than some of the people in this community haha

For anyone that hasn't seen it, it's a reference to this satirical article from 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20030128011354/http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix.

Wow, that's a blast from the past! Completely forgot that LILO used to be a thing.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I remember dealing with migrating from LILO to GRUB when I was in high school, maybe 2005ish? It's been a while. I remember the migration from ipchains to iptables, too (which is happening again now with the iptables to nftables migration)

I used Ubuntu at the time... It was a great distro back then. I only had dial-up so couldn't download large files easily, and Canonical or one of their local partners would mail you a CD for free regardless of where you lived in the world. I think that helped a LOT of people get into Linux.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar experiences here. I remember waiting for the free CDs bundles with monthly magzines, and add then I'd the CD as a mirror in my repos to update my packages lol

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu was the distribution that had me switch from dual-booting with Windows as default to dual-booting with Linux as default.

I also remember ordering an actual Ubuntu disc, with the extra donation to fund the mailing for free program.

Now years later after lots of distro-hopping I just run Ubuntu LTS, and stay on the very boring LTS branch.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man I've seen derivatives of this stuff, but this must be the OG post - thanks for that!

I thought the whole Lunix thing came from the elite hacker JEFF.K!!!!!!!!!11 so I'm chuffed there's another level to this!

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's funny because the first time I read it, I thought it was serious and was just written by a tech-illiterate parent. Saying that Comet Cursor and Bonzi Buddy are hacker software kinda gives away that it's just satire though.

oh I guess that's also something that younger people may not know about... In the late 1990s / early 2000s, it wasn't uncommon for people to install spyware to get things like custom mouse cursors, emoticons, and purple gorillas that help you navigate the web.

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Another mirror has the original comments. They're exactly what you'd expect from 2001.