@miah @flexion I def remember TurboLinux, but I don't...

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@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

Like 1 August at 15:07 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.dsmouse.net

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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.