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    [โ€“] modeler@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Linux was not muscled like that in 1991 - it's first, barebones kernel was released in September of that year.

    I remember installing Linux on a 90MHz 486 in the mid 90s and it barely ran X server with a simple window manager. And if the machine was turned off while Linux was running, you might not be able to boot again.

    Linux now, however, is unrecognizeably better.

    [โ€“] mlg@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I remember someone here made a detailed list of how lots of the early linux FOSS stuff was essentially ripoff of unix software lol. I think XFCE was originally a knockoff of CDE or something with XForms. Now it's the de facto performance DE and the default on Kali.

    [โ€“] Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 week ago

    KDEโ€™s name was a direct rip off of CDEโ€™s name

    [โ€“] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago

    XFCE's old panel was a distinct mimic of CDE's. I liked it..

    But now CDE is open source and NsCDE gives you the same look with a highly customised fvwm config if you don't want to stick to the Motif universe.

    Linux back then was just minix with more packages like x.

    The kernel was absolute bedlam back then.