Tag: Virtual Machine

• A Mid-2000s Linux Distro Made Me Wonder What Could Have Been

  

  I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’ll gladly say it until I’m in the grave: Windows XP is still my favorite Windows of all time, period. It’s not even close. But upon thinking about it again, I started to realize something about that period of my life, which I will touch back…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  October 17, 2026

  Linux

  Anemoia, Colemak, Commercial Linux distributions, Console, Crystal XP, Customization, Discontinued distros, Firefox, Frutiger Aero, KDE 3, Lindows, Linux, OpenOffice, PC/OpenSystems, Retrospective, Skeuomorphism, Solitaire, technology, Terminal, Virtual Machine, Windows XP, Xandros Community Edition, Xandros Linux

• Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron 15 Years Later: A Retrospective

  

  I saw some of the recent news about Ubuntu 23.04’s release, Lunar Lobster, looking a little more favorable, or at least that was the impression I got from this video by DistroTube. Honestly, I haven’t really touched Ubuntu in the longest time and all, but this release, at least according to DT’s impressions, looks more…

  Jack Allan Hyde

  April 25, 2023

  Blog, Linux

  8.04, Hardy Heron, Linux, Nostalgia, Retrospective, Switching, Terminal, Ubuntu, Virtual Machine, Vista, Windows