Comments on: How 10 Popular Linux Distro Sites Looked When they Launched

By: Jormingo

Jormingo — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:54:00 +0000

@ Patrick Dickey

Mate, when I saw your comment, I read the comment I was about to post.

I liked Mandriva’s website the most, and, on CentOS, I was about to say it looked like a stock search webpage. And there’s something geeky but strangely catchy about Slackware’s homepage layout I can’t help but love. Incredible.

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:40:01 +0000

@Stefan and @Adam,
Mandriva was way ahead of its time

By: Marcos

Marcos — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:18:21 +0000

@ Patrick Dickey April 7, 2010 at 11:24 am

” Centos looked too much like one of those Domain Parking sites to me.”

LOL!

By: headsup

headsup — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:05:09 +0000

Mandriva was not released until 2005 so the date 1998 is a little wrong.

In 2005, MandrakeSoft acquired the assets of Lycoris, and purchased Conectiva. As a result of the forced name change, the name Mandriva was selected to reflect the combination of MandrakeSoft and Conectiva.[4]

By: Gen2ly

Gen2ly — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:55:21 +0000

Besides Slackware, I noticed Gentoo’s hasn’t changed much either. Cool profiles, thanks.

By: saymoo

saymoo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:45:35 +0000

redhat’s first site is not known. (not archieved.) you know why?
cause redhat is born in 1993 (and they had a site already back then, i know i visited also with my dailup modem)

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:32:29 +0000

@Adam:

And the mandriva stock price is given in €.

By: Patrick Dickey

Patrick Dickey — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:24:22 +0000

I liked the Mandriva one the best. Followed by Slackware, RedHat, Fedora, and Gentoo (they were all pretty close in my opinion). Centos looked too much like one of those Domain Parking sites to me.

Have a great day:)
Patrick.

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:30:33 +0000

#10 clearly isn’t from 1998, because the Mandriva name change happened in, uh, 2005-2006 IIRC. The ‘News’ link at bottom left shows 2005-dated items.

By: Andrew McCombe

Andrew McCombe — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:19:28 +0000

I remember these so well. And to be honest, slackware.com hasn’t improved or changed much in the last 11 years.