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 @miah @flexion @MrsMouse @flexion Nice! I actually interviewed for Redhat around 2000, at their San Francisco office. I got the offer, but they weren't sure if they wanted to place me in SF (they were closing the office) or NC. I ended up taking a job from the people who likely printed that CD... Turbolinux aka Pacific HiTech. It didn't last though, they laid us all off within a few months. I didn't actually end up working for RH until a few years ago, but I was in the wrong department and left soon. @MrsMouse @flexion I was really disappointed in our release. There were things that just simply didn't work and were clearly untested _in the installer_. Like.. IIRC you couldn't do a FTP install even though it was offered, it would error. I filed so many bugs but like I said, we were laid off soon after. There was a Japanese company also doing Turbolinux for Japan and that distro was 1000x better than ours. @MrsMouse @flexion I think the TurobLinux US distribution had nobodies attention since it was a _bad_ fork of Redhat ~4 (I know a lot of us put love into it, but it was bad). At the office we had some folks from the Japan Turbolinux visit and show us their distro and we were all in total awe of how amazing it was compared to what we were working on.  @MrsMouse @miah @flexion Best gear I can recall was a RamBus-era Pentium 4 system with a wrecked case. Best-for-the-lulz was probably https://jima.us/wang/ 😇 |
@MrsMouse @flexion I recognize that box set. Its a core memory for me. I used to install OpenServer and UnixWare for our clients at my first tech job in 1997. Usually it was OpenServer + Advanced File and Print services.
It was $$$$ (priced per AFP user IIRC)! I got my boss to try out Linux + Samba and we started selling that too as we could charge less to our clients and they'd get _more_ (unlimited users) than what you got with the SCO solution.