Lemmy is so weird. Some of the memes make me think that average audience here is 15 yrs old, but then there is the occasional post like this which only 70 year old ancient wizards will understand.
I resent that. I’m 38 and I distinctly remember this. RedHat 4.2 (Manhattan) circa 1997 I think. That was when I started messing with Linux.
How do you have to be 70 years old to understand this?
I bet half of people surfing right now on r/all wouldn’t.
That’s more the environment than the age tho!
Growing up doesn’t mean we stop finding a well timed fart funny. It means 70 years of memories is still tickled by a crude punchline. Old people and young people have the same sense of humor but slang causes transmission errors.
Thank ya. as a red-neck american muhself Iz often feel lef tout of the fancy gizmo conversations yall be havin.
Just install them La’nuxes for them cozzy feelings.
Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don’t mean RHEL.
Hah, same/similar release as me — family had dialup at the time, but I found “RedHat Linux Secrets 5.x” (with included CD) at a garage sale.
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I think I got that one; back then you could order cheap CDs of a bunch of different distributions from third-party vendors because most people didn’t have broadband. Depressingly, it seems the firm I used (CheapBytes out of California) is gone now.
I had used Slackware before that since my ‘learn you linux’ book came with a Slackware disc set. I recall it being frustrating because I had actually bought WordPerfect for Linux, a libc5 product, and it didn’t work right with the new glibc universe.
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Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second love… 😃
That wasn’t the installer or red hat specific. There used to be language filters in Linux including Swedish Chef, those just got included in the language packs and want so he redhat specific development
and want so he redhat specific development
Back up!
What in tarnation
What in the installation’s goin on in there?
This so funny funny lmafo! Howdy there partner, what parts ya come from.
Well see I come from that internets place out yonder, but I done need tuh git in that there kurnal whatcha ma callit and get r done no whut I’m talkin bout.
This was also in Mandrake Linux.
Because Mandrake was a Red Hat fork
Because Mandrake was a Redhat thingymabob*
cotton eyed Joe approved.
UwU when?
The future is now
Oh right. I forgot about that
I would use Linux much more for personal stuff if they had UwU language options.
Core memory unlocked. This had to be Red Hat 7? One of the few releases before they ditched home/personal use and went all in on enterprise server.
i think they removed this in 5.2 since it broke everything if you used it outside of the installer and was only there to test locales
yep
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The installer for VMware ESXi 7.0 (earliest version released in 2020) still had a Czechoslovakia option for keyboard layout selection.
Interesting! Just laziness or was that layout different from either Slovak or Czech?
Someone should totally recreate this language pack for a modern Linux Distro, or maybe even an interface language for lemmy?
Is there a way to get it back in modern systems?
There are thousands more lines to translate, I’m afraid. However, it is opan source software so you can do it yourself by following the langpack documentation.
