![]() ![]() Mageia - briefly but didn't like it - not as polished as the Pear Linux up to 8.0 - the Debian version 3.0 was a disaster. MacPup - discontinued ( : Macpup)įeatherLinux - discontinued ( : Feather Linux) Zorin from 4 upwards but left shortly after I destroyed my Zorin 15.3 Pro install by accident and then discovered Devuan 3.0 ('beowulf') My triple boot installation video of Zorin 4.0: Linux Mint 8 and 9 briefly (LXDE) but found it to be 'boring'! ![]() Netrunner (project merged with Manjaro last year came with something akin to Zorin Plus (moving image background but went one better as it also supported Gif wallpaper)) ( : Netrunner) PCLinuxOS - favourite was 2007 - loved the industrial floor boot screen with blue globes lighting up left to right during boot! ( : PCLinuxOS) Bit of controversy this distro - the principal developer took a 12 month sabbatical and on his return, was removed from office - a bit like Gaël Duval, the founder of Mandrake Linux was fired after Mandriva (merger of Mandrake and Connectiva Linux) started losing money) who then setup Ulteo Linux and more recently the e.foundation - where I got my unGoogled smartphone from!ĮLive (with Enlightenment DE) ( Elive 3.0 Stable - Download) Gentoo 10.0 Anniversary edition ( Distribution Release: Gentoo Linux 10.0 ( News)) Remember it had great Matrix wallpapers. Vector Linux (I paid for the DeLuxe 2 CD Set isos - can't remember what I donated) currently dormant ( : VectorLinux) Linuxfreack did a lot of the exceptional walls for this release. ![]() Oz Diamond II-B (an Australian derivative of Ultimate Edition - my favourite) Ultimate Edition Oz is sadly no more - here's a video of Diaomond II-B edition OZ Diamond II-B (final) - YouTube Linpus Lite (for netbooks) ( : Linpus Linux)īerry Linux (from Japan) ( : Berry Linux) GNewSense - didn't stay long as it has no proprietary blobs and would not even pick up ethernet! Discontinued ( : gNewSense) ( : Wolvix GNU/Linux)ĭreamLinux (sadly defunct) ( : Dreamlinux)Įpidemic from Brazil (great bio-hazard splash screen - would have loved to have spread that across a Windows Network!) ( : Epidemic GNU/Linux) Had to use Plop Boot Manager to recognise booting from external CD rom drive. Wolvix Cub and Wolvix - great drill-down for graphics on an ancient Toshiba Satellite CD4030 Pro. Musix (from Argentina) ( Musix GNU/Linux – ArchiveOS) ( Distribution Release: Freespire 1.0 ( News)) SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional (Cost me £43) ( SuSE Linux Professional 9.3 : SuSE Linux Products GmbH : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive)įreespire 1 and Freespire 2.0 - community versions of Linspire, much better at hardware discovery than Knoppix 3.1 that was out at the time when using to recover a students corrupt floppy disk in live mode! It has been given a new lease of life with BlackLab Linux but it looks nothing like as cool as the original! Downloaded the updates in my lunch break to CDs I took into work - and broke the install when trying to update manually! LOL! Discontinued as Mandriva ( : Mandriva Linux) Mandrake 10 - which I managed to screw up - I couldn't afford broadband at the time - only had dial-up at home. In no specific order apart from the first one (all on hard metal): ![]()
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