@MrsMouse @flexion LOL I had that same thought! And...

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@MrsMouse @flexion LOL I had that same thought! And then I tried to install SSH + SSLeay on OpenServer. Or really.. just getting a driver for a 3c905 onto a floppy that SCO could read so I could get it on the Network was a head scratcher. Linux was the clear winner =)

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Mrs Mouse :verified: :queer:

@miah @flexion
oh, here's a pic for you

1 August at 14:58 | Open on social.dsmouse.net

Miah Johnson replied to Mrs Mouse :verified: :queer:

@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.

1 August at 15:03 | Open on hachyderm.io

Mrs Mouse :verified: :queer: replied to Miah

@miah @flexion
I def remember TurboLinux, but I don't remember much. That was in the day before I had VM's everywhere so I don't think I had the HW to spin up everything to try. I was at IBM by 2000

1 August at 15:07 | Open on social.dsmouse.net

Miah Johnson replied to Mrs Mouse :verified: :queer:

@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.

1 August at 15:09 | Open on hachyderm.io

Mrs Mouse :verified: :queer: replied to Miah

@miah @flexion
thinking of it, I might remember turbolinux being the Japanese one.
that makes a lot of sense.

1 August at 15:13 | Open on social.dsmouse.net

Miah Johnson replied to Mrs Mouse :verified: :queer:

@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.

1 August at 15:16 | Open on hachyderm.io

Miah Johnson replied to Miah

@MrsMouse @flexion I remembered I have one artifact from around this time... After TurboLinux I ended up working for Penguin Computing! For Christmas we all got these watches. I wore this thing for _years_ as you can see its quite worn down. I'd love to get it fixed up at some point.