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@@Kali_Krause Sorry Kali, but Dann Small Linux is gone from their official website. The only way to get it now is to view the page in the Internet Archive.
I remember I was still in Junior High when I knew Ubuntu for the first time from a local computer magazine. First time learning about open source and freeware. Tried installing various distros. What a nostalgic time!
Although, to be fair, Ubuntu is based on Debian. Which is to say that the first version of Ubuntu is nothing more than a rebranded Debian with a few bits of more uptodate software. Debian has a notoriously long release cycle which Ubuntu was aiming to fix which is why they do the whole date thing for release numbers. Also avoid any .10 releases as they tend to be less stable than their .04 counterparts.
@@nevyn38 I feel that there is a misconception here. Sure, Ubuntu uses Debian as a base, but not in a traditional sense. They pull their base from testing, which tends to be an odd-ball between-release type of system and apply their own patches. So, I mean, it is based on Debian, but is its own beast entirely at the same time.
@@jefferytownsend7787 BUT very early versions of Ubuntu were nothing more than Debian testing with a few branding changes applied. At that point it had a lot of promise but not much new.
2004... Debian and Slackware were both around 1993. There were a couple of earlier distributions that don't exist anymore. I think the problem stems from the language around what is an OS, what is a distribution etc. This is becoming more and more important as we see more Linux "distributions" (they could be seen as their own OS given that they generally have quite different ways of interacting with the system) decoupled from GNU i.e. ChromeOS runs on top of Linux but isn't exactly "Free" as in freedom (it's easier now but when Chromebooks first came out, you couldn't for example, modify and alter the kernel). Android (Look at things like FUSE and related userspace programs like sshfs. It's Linux captain, but not as we know it)
back in my I.T days .. i ust to switch from windows and Linux but sadly i had to use windows %90 of the time .. now I ONLY USE LINUX! :() for personal use.
Shipit was great for my rural dial-up situation. I still remember being amazed that they would do it entirely for free. It was pretty much the only way I had at my disposal to try Linux in those days so it was well worth it. What makes it even more incredible is that the earliest versions actually included TWO CDs - one for the live system and one for the installer!
@Jon N I haven't used Pidgin in a long time so naturally I'd spell it wrong.There was a time I preferred Pidgin over Trillian. These days I only use Discord. Edit: sheesh I'm on a misspelling streak here lol.
I was installing internet service for Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa at the time and he gave me a copy of Ubuntu 5.10. Played with the software and still using the modern versions. I have found Ubuntu to be better than windows when it comes to electronic engineering. We also use it for alarm monitoring in submarine optic fiber systems because it never crashes.
@@kreuner11 Like ordering a free sim card these days from a mobile operator... They'll send you 20 spread out over months. Cos reasons lol. Same thing with copies of AOL they'd send you them endlessly. Basically junk mail
It worked on all non EC variants 68020 thru 40. Copro was not needed (The kernel included an emulator). It was meant to be used on Ataris, Amigas and some Macs (All the ones non using the 68LC040 variant, due to a Bug in the coprocessor)
But it was a slug, more to experiment than anything else. I tried it on an Atari and on some old Mac (Can't remember which). The Mac, with more memory, was usable.
@@framegrace1 the idea of running Linux on an Amiga is cool, even though nowadays everyone dies for original Amiga OS or fan made upgraded versions of Amiga OS
MJD: Installs the very first version of Ubuntu. MJD: Starts Open Office. MJD: "This is probably an older version of it".... ...not sure what you were expecting :)
I don't know if you know this or not, but you can get the latest Debian working on a Pentium III PC. I tried it on my old Windows ME PC, and it worked great.
Debian seems to be the only mainstream-ish distro for weirder CPUs, I knew someone who put it on a PPC Mac too and it was totally up to date (but a lot of utilities still didn't work apparently)
man....ive been with linux since before ubuntu and remember installing this very first release. it literally revolutionized package management and software installation. sure, we had deb and redhat packages, and tarballs, but that was it. no apt-get nothing. anyway, seeing this is heartwarming and returns me back to the turn of the mellinium. ubuntu really did bring linux to the average end user consumer as a viable non scary alternative to windows to play with that didnt require buying a mac or completely learning bash, unix, and linux to compile everything from source tar.gz's
I ordered some those Ubuntu CDs sometime in the early 00s, have version 5.10 & 7.10. Don't think I ever got 5.10 to work with my system at the time but I remember 7.10 working fine. Nice to see how it all started with them.
I started on version 6.06 as my first version. I remember it being a bit of a pain mostly due to my internet at the time taking a long time to download the images and then having to burn it to a CD. Then not knowing it if it was going to work when you finally booted. I distinctly remember once booting an image and it got stuck at the 'X' cursor and never progressed further. Still using Ubuntu now 13 years later and it's still really good but I'll always have my nostalgia for my first version. Makes you appreciate how far we've come that I can go to a website, within 10 minutes download an image, "burn" that image to a USB drive and in a few more minutes have a fully working live OS. I also abused the free CD thing when I was younger and I still have a bunch of Ubuntu discs somewhere, I also have my original Ubuntu disc that started it all complete with handwritten note from when I was probably 15 years old.
I started with 5.10, and upgrade to 6.06 was very exciting! I didn't burn the system to cd, but tried to upgrade straight from the internet. That didn't work well, so I had to do quite a big configuration hell and finally just installed the system again from 6.06 cd :D Good times. I miss the time when Canonical actually contributed to the software selection, lifted up some new software projects like PiTiVi to default install and even created some small utility programs themselves. Pity that nowadays they don't do it as much. Having Spotify as a snap is good also, but that's not free software.
This is pretty cool! Ubuntu isn't the oldest distro out there, but it's pretty cool to see the beginning of what is now a very modern operating system. It's crazy to see that it has anything to do with PalmOS devices out of the box. I have a couple Palm PDAs, but finding software for them is very sparse these days. It'd be interesting to see what Ubuntu used to be able to do with them.
Good video Michael! Regarding the monitor adjustments: try pressing menu plus or minus whilst the OSD is NOT displayed. Many Dell monitors from that era allowed the user to force an auto adjustment by pressing menu plus in this fashion.
Gnome 2.32 was the best DE I remember that and using Compiz Fusion to do spinning cubes. I ditched Ubuntu when they went to Unity with 12.04LTS. I still hate that DE to this day and have yet to find a decent replacement for Gnome 2.32 I think Mate is the closest thing I've encountered but it's not the same.
@GoldenPixel personal account Please don't post that: back in the day it might have been funny to delete a person's entire root partition plus anything mounted. It wasn't all that funny then. It's ***FAR*** less funny now. These days it can brick a computer.
I remember as if it were today, I ordered the cd by the site and really arrived at my house, I remember the route: South Africa - Nederlands and finally my house, a forgotten hole in Rio. I remember that very fondly.
0:44 I don't know if this has been mentioned in the comments ( I can't find it easily ) but this is actually a system called "Calendar Versioning" or CalVer for short. Ubuntu is its prime example, but it is used in other software as well.
When i see this, i am wondering where all this processing power goes nowadays. I could do the same stuff back in that days what i do today. but you barely can find a reasonable OS which does not chew away your GB of RAM.
It's the Parkinson's Law extension for computers: Data expands to fill the space available. As memory and processors have improved, more resources have been handed over to "eye candy" - I look at my wife's Windwos 10 machine and think does it really need to have all those animations in the home(?) screen. Unlike the youth of today my attention (squirrel) span lasts more than 3 seconds.
its not just visuals. a ton of security and encryption and DRM stuff is done in newer systems that is not present in older ones. i imagine having your computer check for hackers every milisecond has a performance cost.
Still running a 2gb ddr2 packard bell prebuilt with the first mainstream quad core, the q6600 lol. Also GeForce 8600GS 512mb gddr2 or something vram. Windows 7. It works surprisingly well if u don’t have useless stuff open like chrome only when you need it. Lol
Just watched this on the leadup to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release. Loved seeing how Ubuntu did things on their initial release! Awsome video man, would love to see more vids just like this!
The Public Library in my city used to use this same version of Ubuntu on all it's computers to minimize costs and due to government incentives to do so. I can say that my first experience with computers was with Ubuntu! :)
@ 10:17 in order to fix the scaling problem with that monitor, you can select "Auto Adjust" which appeared in your video for a fraction of that second on the mark I indicated.
I think 6.04 was my first brush with Ubuntu. My first brush with Linux ever was Red Hat 5.3. Bought it on a whim from the local EB and played with it, but it was a bit over my head at the time. When Ubuntu came out, that changed everything. Currently Ubuntu MATE and Lubuntu are my go-to spins depending on the machine specs that I'm putting them on. Gonna be trying Arch on a Thinkpad Chromebook in a day or so, so that should be an interesting adventure. :)
2:20 okay so... even in 2004 they did support my language, Farsi (persian) Thanks! Btw! you might be able to install latest version of debian with xfce4
19:15 I think this is Nautilus. It used something called “spatial navigation”. This meant that, if you tried to open a window for the same folder twice, it would simply bring the existing window to the front, instead of creating a new one. This was consciously imitating the behaviour of the Macintosh Finder, but a lot of people found it irritating.
The first version I tried of Ubuntu was 7.10 on Live-CD, the first I installed on my desktop PC was 8.04 and I always was entertained playing Majhong on those
For the Mac 68K, I would assume you would need the 68030 at a bare minimum for the hardware memory management unit, maybe even the 68040 for the floating point unit.
This brings me back. I remember Patrick Norton on The Screen Savers talking about this new operating system that you can order online and they will send you a free CD and rushing to the computer to do just that.
@ 2:48 "..The machine that I was using it wasn't able to see the hard drive because it was using SATA". Most, if not every computer and motherboard that supports SATA hard drives come with an option to select "Compatibility" or "IDE mode" in the BIOS. What this does is that it treats the SATA hard drive as if they were IDE hard drive making the older operating systems be able to see them. This was the solution back in the days when people where downgrading Windows Vista machines to Windows XP in droves and the computer manufacturers refused to supply SATA drivers that would work with XP for these machines that came with Vista pre-installed.
I'm so happy you busted out those Ubuntu 10.04lts discs! That disc was my first dive into dual booting and Linux in general. I had gotten it for free in the mail and a friend helped me understand what it was. The memories when I saw that sleeve art 👌
I have one of these and sometimes auto adjust doesn't work right. I have to adjust it manually and the auto messes it up again. But that could be because I'm using it on a modern computer with a cheap eBay adapter.
1:22 And also the whimsical “code” names. This first one was called “Warty Warthog” because it was going to be a first release as a starting point, “warts and all”, with further improvements to come later. But then the animal names became a tradition.
@@jeschinstad while that's true, lots of people quit Ubuntu over Unity being made default, and are still salty. You and I may think it's an overreaction because you can change WM as you please but that's how it is.
For me the best was 14.04. My first distro that i remember intalling succesfully was an snapshot of 12.04 and the first one was 11.10 but on my laptop just gets black screen and install Windows 7 back and 3 months after 12.04 just install and had awesome play time when Steam was released on Linux and play Team Fortress 2 chills
My first try with Linux was a boxed copy of Red Hat back in the late '90s. During the installation it chastised me for having "very low RAM" -- I had 16 MB, which was plenty for Windows back then -- and I didn't have enough hard drive space to install the whole thing, but it made electing not to install all of its features a total nightmare because I had to go through and manually resolve all of the dependencies, which I was largely guessing my way through. The final nail in the coffin was that it couldn't detect my video card, so I was stuck at 640x480 VGA resolution.
@@CommodoreFan64 Ubuntu has a crazy CPU category called i686 that basically means you can install a 32-bit system on it and use some 64-bit software under a weird kind of emulation.
@@timothygibney159 default 32bit xubuntu uses about 128mb. you can get it under 100mb by uninstalling a few things like pulse and whoopsie. Just for reference default win98se uses around 100mb of ram. obviously you can strip it down though.
My preference is for the screen to be a viewport onto a larger desktop (I use 2x3) which scrolls/pans to the next viewport position when going off the edge. I often have parts of windows off the edge and shift the viewport rather than the window if I need the information off the screen. (This may be a feature of the window manager as I can also have multiple desktops with a viewport onto larger "physical" desktops.)
Thanks for the video and nostalgia. That old interface, old GNOME -- everything looked so pleasant and consistent. People talk about the year of the Linux desktop, but to me, it's only been downhill the last couple of years.
@@ivanv754 I guess if you want to use something like i3. I don't see anything complicated or cluttered about it. Settings are clearly visible and easily accessible and it is very stable.
Gnome was originally designed to be similar to the macOS UI ... and the clarity and essential simplicity is certainly there ..sadly Gnome3 sort of threw the baby out with the bathwater...
Great video! It's amazing how far Linux has come in just a short time - but it was fun seeing the oldest version of Ubuntu! p.s. where did you find a machine like that for $5? Something that old in that condition would be a big-ticket collectors' item now! p.s.s. love your videos!
About that monitor situation, there is Auto Adjust button visible in 10:17. Also at the beginning of the installation monitor did auto adjustment, but failed to do it correctly.
It might be interesting to do a video on the quest for the most feature-complete linux distribution that can still run on this hardware in it's current version. I'm not sure what is inside this machine but I would try starting with something like Slitaz and if that works Antix?
I think have tried that version on my Pentium 4 PC in 2004, the disks were free to take at our college, it was my first time to see the linux GUI other than KDE
They still shipped them for free as of 10.10 I wish I still had my 10.10 CD - I ordered it when I was only 17, and it was my first experience with actually installing linux on anything.
I love Ubuntu, I actually run it as my only OS on my desktop, and then I have my windows 11 laptop for school stuff. Comes in handy because as a CS major I have to run Linux distros for various classes
I forgot how awful early VGA LCDs were. You always had some crazy overscan that you could never get rid of, and you had to pick which row of text you *wouldn't* be able to see. Bleh.
It's also interesting to think that this OS and the monitor are roughly time appropriate with eachother. Also have a Samsung SyncMater 910t that I connected as a 4th monitor to my PC recently and initially had that issue.
7:06 Back when makedev still mattered ... 2004 was when I bought my first Linux machine for myself, after having been supporting it for a few years for clients. It was a Shuttle, and it came with a copy of Mandrake 9.2 Discovery Edition in the box. “Discovery Edition” meant it was just 2 CDs, missing the third one with the developer tools (GCC etc) on it. So my first steps in Linux hacking were in figuring out how and where to get those missing packages and install them. ;)
ok let me pause for a moment, something got my attention.... " FIVE DOLLAR win98 machine " ??? tell me more xDDDD For 2004 this is way ahead of the curve. Back then, some distros came on DVDs containing "mini repositores" of their own, since downloading from the internet was not really an option yet. Nowadays, this is one of the weaknesses of Linux, without internet you're not able to do almost anything. Are there distros that still offer that type of DVD arrangement packed full of apps?
Yes there are... There are operating system installers that are a full 7 gb and some that span multiple disks... If you go to a mirror for a major distro you can get the link and do some directory traversing and find the cache of ISOs and you may find some of these images you are wanting
@@Martronic Oh interesting, thanks! Those huge ISOs can be useful for the future if someone needs to stay with an older distro version without losing all the repository functionality. Personally, I've been doing Chroot images with everything I need packed in, so I don't rely on internet for doing something all the time. (a tool called JLiveCD does all that in an automated fashion, hit a button and it automatically recompresses into an ISO for you... Just throwing it out there in case anyone needs it...) Considering that I was able to pack-in an entire Wine Staging installation (300 MB of packages according to Apt) and the final ISO size only increased 100 MB in size, the filesize aspect of it makes it a very handy solution.
Aghrr! Auto-adjust the monitor! 10:17 Image Settings > Auto Adjust, or press the button on the front 17:41 It's what the funky icon between the power button and the + button means
around 10:00 - this looks like regular text mode (unlike the one used during installation - i think all debian derivatives use that one). when the monitor sees a resolution and/or refresh rate it didn't encounter before, it tries to auto adjust. if it gets interrupted or the text is indented, it might come out a mess. you can see the auto adjust happening at 2:06, right when the kernel switches resolution after loading.
The point was that Windows 10 just now incorporated the multi-desktop feature, while it was available in an Ubuntu version from 10 years ago, and in fact much earlier than that. I can remember having it circa-2002.
i love this video, i remember ordering a FREE cd from the canonical website and installing it :') skip 9+ years of getting into linux distros and slowly hating windows and after windows 10 just becoming absolute shit, here i am running a version of ubuntu named linux mint and on my laptop i'm running a version of ubuntu named regolith-i3 :')
@@CommodoreFan64 yeah, iv'e been on and off but when it's come to laptops iv'e always stuck and experimented with distros since thinkpads seem to have excellent linux friendly hardware as for my main PC designed for gaming and everything else it's had some issues with linux due to nvidia drivers but apart from that everything has been smooth sailing.
Windows (any version post XP) refused to install on my disk saying it had bad sectors. Here I am using Linux on the same exact disk 3 years later. Thanks Linux! Also, I never had such a good time running old games like I'm having using Wine+Dosbox+DxWnd (direct draw wrapper for old games) On windows itself it was a pain running these old games... Oh, and my hard disk don't make noises anymore! Thanks Linux again
@@CommodoreFan64 I'm pretty sure browser's caches and a stupid banking app (never installing those again) trashed my disk with constant read/writes, also torrents... Wished I knew about RAMdisks before, it's the answer to keep your disk pretty much intact.
Back in like 2004 or so I ordered a 5 pack of that exact OS for literally that exact gateway PC and they sent me a 10 pack of Ubuntu stickers. The nostalgia is real here lol. I actually still have the original disks if you're interested in it.
Oh man that sounds awesome! They sent stickers too?! I’d love to get one of the original discs, I’ve even been thinking of trying to collect all of them to make a video on. But yeah, if you want to send one to me just email me here: michael at teammjd dot com and we can work it out. Thanks so much!!
@@MichaelMJD Awesome! I don't have the sleeves or stickers anymore that I can find but I do still have several of the original disks and would be happy to work something out. I'll hit you up.
21:13 That is actually a legit Firefox logo from version 1 to 3. The blue globe logo is bundled in Firefox’s source code to differentiate that from Mozilla’s trademark logo. The blue globe is licensed in a much lenient license so that you can include in other softwares.
Reading the comments brings back so much nostalgia. I first got into Linux with Redhat 5. Spent most of the mid to late 90s with Slackware. Never really got too much into Ubuntu, though I did use Debian for awhile. I kind of have an infatuation with Gentoo. It has been my distro for over a decade. Mainly because I love watching code compile for some reason. A lot of the early installers used the text based installer. I believe they use ncurses.
No joke pretty sure my first hardrive, cd drive, and floppy drive all came from that same computer. My dad was a gateway fanboy back in the day. God I miss that fat ass Gateway boot screen. Such Nostalgia.
@@NETkoholik My first was a celeron 600 Mhz with 128MB ram and a 40GB HDD. I used it for 9 months then built one with 1 GB RAM, Athlon XP 1700+, GeForce 3 Ti200 AGP 4x and the same 40GB HDD until I had enough saved up for a 250GB HDD. Man. Those old days. I never did get Linux Mandrake working well.
There's a very good chance this is the version that's still installed on my Apple iBook G4. Ahhh, the memories. Thanks for showing us this, good sir. ⌨️
(16:26) I should point out, that back then, Ubuntu was shipping their own unofficial builds of Firefox, at least judging by the icon. Official builds would arrive in a later release, probably 6.06, 6.10, or 7.04.
17:08 widows has had Multiple desktops since the begining... Press windows keys + tab ... You can create as many as you like even in the early versions of windows 10
Absolutely The latest version of Ubuntu can indeed run on a Windows 98 PC. It's amazing how versatile these older operating systems can be allowing us to experience the power of modern Linux on vintage hardware. Just make sure to check the system requirements and do some research to ensure a smooth installation process.
17:05 The Windows version only works with apps that support it, so not every app will behave nicely with multiple desktops. In the Linux world, just about everything will work fine. And that applies to other multi-desktop GUIs as well, not just GNOME.
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how was this posted 6 days ago?
Scheduled publish.
Michael MJD Have you tried Damn Small Linux ? I hear it's similar to Windows 95 as well
@@Kali_Krause Sorry Kali, but Dann Small Linux is gone from their official website. The only way to get it now is to view the page in the Internet Archive.
They got hacked... I wouldn't be pushing them.
When a $5 pc is snappier than yours
I technically got a Pentium II computer for free, and it was snappier than most other computers I had.
o got a i7 3770 non k and a pentium 4 for free
@@vincentschumann937 The Pentium II has a speed of 746 MHz on XP.
Try Ubuntu Mate on yours then
@@fred-youtube bet m8
I remember I was still in Junior High when I knew Ubuntu for the first time from a local computer magazine. First time learning about open source and freeware. Tried installing various distros. What a nostalgic time!
It's really interesting seeing old versions of Linux operating systems, I'd love to see more videos like this!
Thanks for the feedback! I actually have another linux related video in the works!
@Nocturn Adrift because we want to forget rather then reminisce about compiling custom versions of wine to get csgo working or compiling wifi drivers.
Although, to be fair, Ubuntu is based on Debian. Which is to say that the first version of Ubuntu is nothing more than a rebranded Debian with a few bits of more uptodate software. Debian has a notoriously long release cycle which Ubuntu was aiming to fix which is why they do the whole date thing for release numbers. Also avoid any .10 releases as they tend to be less stable than their .04 counterparts.
@@nevyn38 I feel that there is a misconception here. Sure, Ubuntu uses Debian as a base, but not in a traditional sense. They pull their base from testing, which tends to be an odd-ball between-release type of system and apply their own patches. So, I mean, it is based on Debian, but is its own beast entirely at the same time.
@@jefferytownsend7787 BUT very early versions of Ubuntu were nothing more than Debian testing with a few branding changes applied. At that point it had a lot of promise but not much new.
"One of the earliest distributions of Linux"
Come on, man -- Yggdrasil on floppies or bust!
Eddie Mercury ok
I have a distro of Red Hat 4.2 on CD that came with a "Linux for Dummies" book I got. I tried to load it onto my 486 with no success.
2004... Debian and Slackware were both around 1993. There were a couple of earlier distributions that don't exist anymore. I think the problem stems from the language around what is an OS, what is a distribution etc.
This is becoming more and more important as we see more Linux "distributions" (they could be seen as their own OS given that they generally have quite different ways of interacting with the system) decoupled from GNU i.e. ChromeOS runs on top of Linux but isn't exactly "Free" as in freedom (it's easier now but when Chromebooks first came out, you couldn't for example, modify and alter the kernel). Android (Look at things like FUSE and related userspace programs like sshfs. It's Linux captain, but not as we know it)
Cries in slagware
@@TheXev thats what i started with ! 97 or 98
man as soon as I saw that old Ubuntu splash screen the memories came flooding back. Good vid
Yep 😀
Thank you!
back in my I.T days .. i ust to switch from windows and Linux but sadly i had to use windows %90 of the time .. now I ONLY USE LINUX! :() for personal use.
Shipit was great for my rural dial-up situation. I still remember being amazed that they would do it entirely for free. It was pretty much the only way I had at my disposal to try Linux in those days so it was well worth it. What makes it even more incredible is that the earliest versions actually included TWO CDs - one for the live system and one for the installer!
>GAIM
That tells ya how old it is. Gaim was renamed Pidgin a long time ago.
@Jon N I haven't used Pidgin in a long time so naturally I'd spell it wrong.There was a time I preferred Pidgin over Trillian. These days I only use Discord.
Edit: sheesh I'm on a misspelling streak here lol.
@@Tall_Order *Trillian
@@burgertim7878 who the hell uses those today lol
@@timothygibney159 oh I'm sure someone still does, just like there are still people out there using windows XP.
@@burgertim7878 I like your name, burger Tim. It's fun to say. Burger Tim
Cool stuff, man. My first Ubuntu was also 10.04. It's wild how far Linux in general has come in the last fifteen years or so.
is sad see now Ubuntu...why, Canonical, why?
I got my ubuntu 5.10 today
Mine too! But I use Linux Mint now, I don't like snap and I think mint is a little easier to use and manage
10:15
I own that exact monitor.
You need to lower the Pixel Clock in Image Settings. It's weird.
i have that monitor too
@@laciherself What's the model number then, lier?
@@gustukas not everyones a liar and u spelled it wrong, also how do u know if ketten is or not
I was installing internet service for Mark Shuttleworth in South Africa at the time and he gave me a copy of Ubuntu 5.10.
Played with the software and still using the modern versions. I have found Ubuntu to be better than windows when it comes to electronic engineering. We also use it for alarm monitoring in submarine optic fiber systems because it never crashes.
I have several of their pressed CDs, some of them for PPC. I remember ordering a whole slew of them and giving them away at the local college.
Came with nice stickers too
@@wton I don't remember stickers. Now I want stickers.
Pronounced “oo-booon-to”. A South African term for humanity.
XD
oololoololooo
@@marksmod Shut up
@@leviticus8930 Pronounced oo-boon-to like SpringBok001 said¬!
@UwU v2 Your mom
3:07 That red dialog is still used today in every Debian installer.
@Scupake Ubuntu is still based on debian
Scupake oh my god bro I am so sorry how could I ever make such a stupid mistake I am such a fucking moron
Not in the modified kali installer that is literally the Debian installer
Except the graphical installer
I remember getting like 25 of these cds in the mail lol
@@kreuner11 Like ordering a free sim card these days from a mobile operator... They'll send you 20 spread out over months. Cos reasons lol. Same thing with copies of AOL they'd send you them endlessly. Basically junk mail
@@1invag You can use the AOL CD to connect to the internet for free. It was dialup, but I needed it.
@@1invagI ordered a few things like that as a kid, lol. My mum's still getting some of the junk mail primary school me signed up for.
The 68k release is probably made for later 68k machines like the 68030 based machines and likely requires an mmu and the coprocessor
There is uc linux which runs on a vanilla 68k processor, but i don't know if it has ports to the original macintosh series and similars
It worked on all non EC variants 68020 thru 40. Copro was not needed (The kernel included an emulator). It was meant to be used on Ataris, Amigas and some Macs (All the ones non using the 68LC040 variant, due to a Bug in the coprocessor)
But it was a slug, more to experiment than anything else. I tried it on an Atari and on some old Mac (Can't remember which). The Mac, with more memory, was usable.
@@framegrace1 the idea of running Linux on an Amiga is cool, even though nowadays everyone dies for original Amiga OS or fan made upgraded versions of Amiga OS
MJD: Installs the very first version of Ubuntu.
MJD: Starts Open Office.
MJD: "This is probably an older version of it"....
...not sure what you were expecting :)
I don't know if you know this or not, but you can get the latest Debian working on a Pentium III PC. I tried it on my old Windows ME PC, and it worked great.
That is really cool to know. Thanks for sharing.
I actually got it running on a Pentium II, It's god awfully slow but it works perfectly. I actually ran a webserver off of it for a bit
Debian seems to be the only mainstream-ish distro for weirder CPUs, I knew someone who put it on a PPC Mac too and it was totally up to date (but a lot of utilities still didn't work apparently)
Debian Sid or Debian Stable?
Debian 10 LXDE!!!
I love how resource monitor has changed so little as compared to the current latest version. The structure and the UI is the same yet so different!
man....ive been with linux since before ubuntu and remember installing this very first release. it literally revolutionized package management and software installation. sure, we had deb and redhat packages, and tarballs, but that was it. no apt-get nothing. anyway, seeing this is heartwarming and returns me back to the turn of the mellinium. ubuntu really did bring linux to the average end user consumer as a viable non scary alternative to windows to play with that didnt require buying a mac or completely learning bash, unix, and linux to compile everything from source tar.gz's
and...now...Snap! i miss the old good Ubuntu!
@@Yep6803 a good reason to switch to Mint
I ordered some those Ubuntu CDs sometime in the early 00s, have version 5.10 & 7.10. Don't think I ever got 5.10 to work with my system at the time but I remember 7.10 working fine. Nice to see how it all started with them.
I started on version 6.06 as my first version. I remember it being a bit of a pain mostly due to my internet at the time taking a long time to download the images and then having to burn it to a CD. Then not knowing it if it was going to work when you finally booted. I distinctly remember once booting an image and it got stuck at the 'X' cursor and never progressed further. Still using Ubuntu now 13 years later and it's still really good but I'll always have my nostalgia for my first version. Makes you appreciate how far we've come that I can go to a website, within 10 minutes download an image, "burn" that image to a USB drive and in a few more minutes have a fully working live OS.
I also abused the free CD thing when I was younger and I still have a bunch of Ubuntu discs somewhere, I also have my original Ubuntu disc that started it all complete with handwritten note from when I was probably 15 years old.
I started with 5.10, and upgrade to 6.06 was very exciting! I didn't burn the system to cd, but tried to upgrade straight from the internet. That didn't work well, so I had to do quite a big configuration hell and finally just installed the system again from 6.06 cd :D Good times.
I miss the time when Canonical actually contributed to the software selection, lifted up some new software projects like PiTiVi to default install and even created some small utility programs themselves. Pity that nowadays they don't do it as much. Having Spotify as a snap is good also, but that's not free software.
This is pretty cool! Ubuntu isn't the oldest distro out there, but it's pretty cool to see the beginning of what is now a very modern operating system. It's crazy to see that it has anything to do with PalmOS devices out of the box. I have a couple Palm PDAs, but finding software for them is very sparse these days. It'd be interesting to see what Ubuntu used to be able to do with them.
Good video Michael!
Regarding the monitor adjustments: try pressing menu plus or minus whilst the OSD is NOT displayed. Many Dell monitors from that era allowed the user to force an auto adjustment by pressing menu plus in this fashion.
I was thinkin' "Factory Reset" myself.
Oh, times before Gnome 3 & KDE Plasma, everything was looking great ;-)
@ch282 No, it is not rainbow coloured
xfce is better
Gnome 2.32 was the best DE I remember that and using Compiz Fusion to do spinning cubes. I ditched Ubuntu when they went to Unity with 12.04LTS. I still hate that DE to this day and have yet to find a decent replacement for Gnome 2.32 I think Mate is the closest thing I've encountered but it's not the same.
When you start a linux distro and don't start the terminal: International crime
@mcxreeper found the normie
@BenderGamer I agree. I used to be a GUI goon but now I use the terminal for all my sw upgrades etc.
@@stephenwright8824 I can't believe how resource hungry the GUI tools for upgrades is.
Can't have a Linux video without someone policing the "real way" to use Linux :|
@GoldenPixel personal account Please don't post that: back in the day it might have been funny to delete a person's entire root partition plus anything mounted. It wasn't all that funny then. It's ***FAR*** less funny now. These days it can brick a computer.
I remember as if it were today, I ordered the cd by the site and really arrived at my house, I remember the route: South Africa - Nederlands and finally my house, a forgotten hole in Rio. I remember that very fondly.
Hello smokers MJD1 here and today we are going to install Ubuntu
HAha good reference
On a SSD!
0:44 I don't know if this has been mentioned in the comments ( I can't find it easily ) but this is actually a system called "Calendar Versioning" or CalVer for short. Ubuntu is its prime example, but it is used in other software as well.
When i see this, i am wondering where all this processing power goes nowadays. I could do the same stuff back in that days what i do today. but you barely can find a reasonable OS which does not chew away your GB of RAM.
It's the Parkinson's Law extension for computers: Data expands to fill the space available.
As memory and processors have improved, more resources have been handed over to "eye candy" - I look at my wife's Windwos 10 machine and think does it really need to have all those animations in the home(?) screen. Unlike the youth of today my attention (squirrel) span lasts more than 3 seconds.
its not just visuals. a ton of security and encryption and DRM stuff is done in newer systems that is not present in older ones. i imagine having your computer check for hackers every milisecond has a performance cost.
Still running a 2gb ddr2 packard bell prebuilt with the first mainstream quad core, the q6600 lol. Also GeForce 8600GS 512mb gddr2 or something vram. Windows 7. It works surprisingly well if u don’t have useless stuff open like chrome only when you need it. Lol
I mean, a lot of Winblows chewing up your resources only happens on Winblows, obviously, so... but yeah I get your point.
Just watched this on the leadup to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS release. Loved seeing how Ubuntu did things on their initial release! Awsome video man, would love to see more vids just like this!
The Public Library in my city used to use this same version of Ubuntu on all it's computers to minimize costs and due to government incentives to do so.
I can say that my first experience with computers was with Ubuntu! :)
@ 10:17 in order to fix the scaling problem with that monitor, you can select "Auto Adjust" which appeared in your video for a fraction of that second on the mark I indicated.
I think 6.04 was my first brush with Ubuntu. My first brush with Linux ever was Red Hat 5.3. Bought it on a whim from the local EB and played with it, but it was a bit over my head at the time. When Ubuntu came out, that changed everything. Currently Ubuntu MATE and Lubuntu are my go-to spins depending on the machine specs that I'm putting them on. Gonna be trying Arch on a Thinkpad Chromebook in a day or so, so that should be an interesting adventure. :)
when you move to arch, you cant go back.
5:18 one disadvantage of these discs for canonical: format it and you have a free cd disc
"Install X OS into Y hardware". Yes, the good old Druaga1 style! Subscribed for more.
Not enough SSD
2:20 okay so... even in 2004 they did support my language, Farsi (persian) Thanks!
Btw! you might be able to install latest version of debian with xfce4
Even better... Use openbox... Install it from the terminal
Brings me back to when I was 16-17, playing around with linux and programming.
19:15 I think this is Nautilus. It used something called “spatial navigation”. This meant that, if you tried to open a window for the same folder twice, it would simply bring the existing window to the front, instead of creating a new one. This was consciously imitating the behaviour of the Macintosh Finder, but a lot of people found it irritating.
I really wish that they still shipped cds today
The first version I tried of Ubuntu was 7.10 on Live-CD, the first I installed on my desktop PC was 8.04 and I always was entertained playing Majhong on those
For the Mac 68K, I would assume you would need the 68030 at a bare minimum for the hardware memory management unit, maybe even the 68040 for the floating point unit.
This brings me back. I remember Patrick Norton on The Screen Savers talking about this new operating system that you can order online and they will send you a free CD and rushing to the computer to do just that.
@ 2:48 "..The machine that I was using it wasn't able to see the hard drive because it was using SATA".
Most, if not every computer and motherboard that supports SATA hard drives come with an option to select "Compatibility" or "IDE mode" in the BIOS. What this does is that it treats the SATA hard drive as if they were IDE hard drive making the older operating systems be able to see them. This was the solution back in the days when people where downgrading Windows Vista machines to Windows XP in droves and the computer manufacturers refused to supply SATA drivers that would work with XP for these machines that came with Vista pre-installed.
I ordered Ubuntu 10.10, Think that's the last version they shipped... I still have that CD.
I'm so happy you busted out those Ubuntu 10.04lts discs! That disc was my first dive into dual booting and Linux in general. I had gotten it for free in the mail and a friend helped me understand what it was. The memories when I saw that sleeve art 👌
That looks like my first PC from 2000. It was $1000! 😆😆 I still remember using Napster on dialup. Good times!
so ubuntu started that numbering scheme that windows 10 now sorta uses for versions, (year+month)
But Canonical keep to their release dates *cough* 1809 *cough*
2004
10:17 For f**ks sakes! Image settings > Auto Adjust!
Either way, interesting video.
i had screams in my head. like this guy can install linux but doesn't know how to auto adjust a vga screen? jeeez
I have one of these and sometimes auto adjust doesn't work right. I have to adjust it manually and the auto messes it up again. But that could be because I'm using it on a modern computer with a cheap eBay adapter.
1:22 And also the whimsical “code” names. This first one was called “Warty Warthog” because it was going to be a first release as a starting point, “warts and all”, with further improvements to come later. But then the animal names became a tradition.
I miss Ubuntu's startup sound.
I miss real ubuntu, the last being 1204
@@Bigbadwhitecracker: Why is that?
@@jeschinstad unity wm, lots of ppl salty
@@kaitlyn__L: I don't know what that means. I mean, the classic desktop has always been available.
@@jeschinstad while that's true, lots of people quit Ubuntu over Unity being made default, and are still salty. You and I may think it's an overreaction because you can change WM as you please but that's how it is.
I remember our local library used to have it's computer installed with Ubuntu, It was before 2010 so it was some cool version 2 of Gnome destkop.
I've ordered 10.10 cd back then, it's was free and the best version of ubuntu all time.
For me the best was 14.04. My first distro that i remember intalling succesfully was an snapshot of 12.04 and the first one was 11.10 but on my laptop just gets black screen and install Windows 7 back and 3 months after 12.04 just install and had awesome play time when Steam was released on Linux and play Team Fortress 2 chills
This poor computer. It’s gone through so much. I’m glad you are taking good care of it!
0:40 Correct
0:52 Correct
0:56 I'm not angry. Just disappointed. He redeems himself later
My first try with Linux was a boxed copy of Red Hat back in the late '90s. During the installation it chastised me for having "very low RAM" -- I had 16 MB, which was plenty for Windows back then -- and I didn't have enough hard drive space to install the whole thing, but it made electing not to install all of its features a total nightmare because I had to go through and manually resolve all of the dependencies, which I was largely guessing my way through. The final nail in the coffin was that it couldn't detect my video card, so I was stuck at 640x480 VGA resolution.
Install the latest version of Lubuntu
try haiku beta 2 it's going to be released this month.
@@ZackJohnson-yu7lu You can disable pae booting on 32bit ubuntu distros and get it running on PIIs by editing the grub menu.
@@CommodoreFan64 Ubuntu has a crazy CPU category called i686 that basically means you can install a 32-bit system on it and use some 64-bit software under a weird kind of emulation.
@@hyperdriverr that thing had maybe 256 Meg's of ram. Maybe even just 64 Meg's or 128 Meg's of ram. That is pretty tight
@@timothygibney159 default 32bit xubuntu uses about 128mb. you can get it under 100mb by uninstalling a few things like pulse and whoopsie.
Just for reference default win98se uses around 100mb of ram. obviously you can strip it down though.
17:34 That's actually (now) a standard feature of XFCE.
My preference is for the screen to be a viewport onto a larger desktop (I use 2x3) which scrolls/pans to the next viewport position when going off the edge. I often have parts of windows off the edge and shift the viewport rather than the window if I need the information off the screen. (This may be a feature of the window manager as I can also have multiple desktops with a viewport onto larger "physical" desktops.)
Thanks for the video and nostalgia. That old interface, old GNOME -- everything looked so pleasant and consistent. People talk about the year of the Linux desktop, but to me, it's only been downhill the last couple of years.
I don't know, Plasma is pretty on-point.
@@jefferytownsend7787 it's too complicated and cluttered
@@ivanv754 I guess if you want to use something like i3. I don't see anything complicated or cluttered about it. Settings are clearly visible and easily accessible and it is very stable.
Gnome was originally designed to be similar to the macOS UI ... and the clarity and essential simplicity is certainly there ..sadly Gnome3 sort of threw the baby out with the bathwater...
@@ceebee23 They sure did. It is like they took up the unity mantle.
Woah, the nostalgia here. How cool.
Great video! It's amazing how far Linux has come in just a short time - but it was fun seeing the oldest version of Ubuntu! p.s. where did you find a machine like that for $5? Something that old in that condition would be a big-ticket collectors' item now! p.s.s. love your videos!
I was thinking the opposite of how Linux used to be so great before it went to shit
I think the guy selling it probably thought it’s old trash that has no use anymore and thought it wouldn’t be worth much.
About that monitor situation, there is Auto Adjust button visible in 10:17. Also at the beginning of the installation monitor did auto adjustment, but failed to do it correctly.
Please do more linux! If you do debian be aware of the BEEEPPP at setup.
Btw where did you ge t the pc from?
I think he got it from good will but I'm dumb so probably not
@@gameradachi6347 goodwill sells clothes xDDDD
Debian: blink and it'll ask you if you want an update/upgrade LOL
12:24 i think it has to be atleast a 68020, since the original 68000 and 68010 can only address up to 16MB of RAM.
This was my first version of Ubuntu!
Great video Michael!
It might be interesting to do a video on the quest for the most feature-complete linux distribution that can still run on this hardware in it's current version. I'm not sure what is inside this machine but I would try starting with something like Slitaz and if that works Antix?
I think have tried that version on my Pentium 4 PC in 2004, the disks were free to take at our college, it was my first time to see the linux GUI other than KDE
They still shipped them for free as of 10.10
I wish I still had my 10.10 CD - I ordered it when I was only 17, and it was my first experience with actually installing linux on anything.
my first install of linux is when i am 9
I love Ubuntu, I actually run it as my only OS on my desktop, and then I have my windows 11 laptop for school stuff. Comes in handy because as a CS major I have to run Linux distros for various classes
How about Lindows (Linspire) 1.x/2.x?
How bout Xperience Tiny7 or TinyXP xDDD the Hirens Boot DVD is also nice to boot you into a usable Windows PE without having to install on disk
wow that cd brings me back!
I forgot how awful early VGA LCDs were. You always had some crazy overscan that you could never get rid of, and you had to pick which row of text you *wouldn't* be able to see. Bleh.
It's also interesting to think that this OS and the monitor are roughly time appropriate with eachother. Also have a Samsung SyncMater 910t that I connected as a 4th monitor to my PC recently and initially had that issue.
7:06 Back when makedev still mattered ...
2004 was when I bought my first Linux machine for myself, after having been supporting it for a few years for clients. It was a Shuttle, and it came with a copy of Mandrake 9.2 Discovery Edition in the box. “Discovery Edition” meant it was just 2 CDs, missing the third one with the developer tools (GCC etc) on it. So my first steps in Linux hacking were in figuring out how and where to get those missing packages and install them. ;)
ok let me pause for a moment, something got my attention.... " FIVE DOLLAR win98 machine " ??? tell me more xDDDD
For 2004 this is way ahead of the curve. Back then, some distros came on DVDs containing "mini repositores" of their own, since downloading from the internet was not really an option yet. Nowadays, this is one of the weaknesses of Linux, without internet you're not able to do almost anything. Are there distros that still offer that type of DVD arrangement packed full of apps?
Yes there are... There are operating system installers that are a full 7 gb and some that span multiple disks... If you go to a mirror for a major distro you can get the link and do some directory traversing and find the cache of ISOs and you may find some of these images you are wanting
I think I remember centos and openSUSE for sure...
I think a lot of the rpm (redhat) based distros do this for server installs
@@Martronic Oh interesting, thanks! Those huge ISOs can be useful for the future if someone needs to stay with an older distro version without losing all the repository functionality. Personally, I've been doing Chroot images with everything I need packed in, so I don't rely on internet for doing something all the time. (a tool called JLiveCD does all that in an automated fashion, hit a button and it automatically recompresses into an ISO for you... Just throwing it out there in case anyone needs it...) Considering that I was able to pack-in an entire Wine Staging installation (300 MB of packages according to Apt) and the final ISO size only increased 100 MB in size, the filesize aspect of it makes it a very handy solution.
Aghrr! Auto-adjust the monitor!
10:17 Image Settings > Auto Adjust, or press the button on the front
17:41 It's what the funky icon between the power button and the + button means
Aaah, before they went commercial and when Ubuntu was actually good.
Good times.
huh wdym?
@@RetroDarioGaming I guess Ubuntu is more corporate than most other distributions, although still much more open then windows or god forbid macos.
@@catloaf-tt7fc I mean isn't Ubuntu the same deal as Redhat?
Ubuntu is and always was a free product backed by a commercial company
around 10:00 - this looks like regular text mode (unlike the one used during installation - i think all debian derivatives use that one). when the monitor sees a resolution and/or refresh rate it didn't encounter before, it tries to auto adjust. if it gets interrupted or the text is indented, it might come out a mess. you can see the auto adjust happening at 2:06, right when the kernel switches resolution after loading.
18:04
“It just took a while for Windows 10 to catch on.”
Windows 10 didn’t even exist at the time that he’s referring to....
The point was that Windows 10 just now incorporated the multi-desktop feature, while it was available in an Ubuntu version from 10 years ago, and in fact much earlier than that. I can remember having it circa-2002.
@@jefferytownsend7787
An interesting comparison would be with the Windwos of the time: XP
@@jefferytownsend7787: Ten years ago since 2004 in 2019? :) Fifteen years ago.
ive used that installer screen many times - its taken straight from debian, which still has it to this day
i love this video, i remember ordering a FREE cd from the canonical website and installing it :') skip 9+ years of getting into linux distros and slowly hating windows and after windows 10 just becoming absolute shit, here i am running a version of ubuntu named linux mint and on my laptop i'm running a version of ubuntu named regolith-i3 :')
@@CommodoreFan64 yeah, iv'e been on and off but when it's come to laptops iv'e always stuck and experimented with distros since thinkpads seem to have excellent linux friendly hardware as for my main PC designed for gaming and everything else it's had some issues with linux due to nvidia drivers but apart from that everything has been smooth sailing.
@@CommodoreFan64 T430U here with upgraded memory to 8GB and HDD is now an SSD running regolith-i3 and it runs perfectly.
Windows (any version post XP) refused to install on my disk saying it had bad sectors. Here I am using Linux on the same exact disk 3 years later. Thanks Linux! Also, I never had such a good time running old games like I'm having using Wine+Dosbox+DxWnd (direct draw wrapper for old games) On windows itself it was a pain running these old games... Oh, and my hard disk don't make noises anymore! Thanks Linux again
@@CommodoreFan64 I'm pretty sure browser's caches and a stupid banking app (never installing those again) trashed my disk with constant read/writes, also torrents... Wished I knew about RAMdisks before, it's the answer to keep your disk pretty much intact.
I just discovered your channel and you're like another Druaga1, very epic, subscribed!
Woah so 18.10 is October 2018. 19.04 is April 2019
19.10 is just around the corner.
20.10 is october 2020
Back in like 2004 or so I ordered a 5 pack of that exact OS for literally that exact gateway PC and they sent me a 10 pack of Ubuntu stickers. The nostalgia is real here lol. I actually still have the original disks if you're interested in it.
Oh man that sounds awesome! They sent stickers too?! I’d love to get one of the original discs, I’ve even been thinking of trying to collect all of them to make a video on. But yeah, if you want to send one to me just email me here: michael at teammjd dot com and we can work it out. Thanks so much!!
@@MichaelMJD Awesome! I don't have the sleeves or stickers anymore that I can find but I do still have several of the original disks and would be happy to work something out. I'll hit you up.
It's amsing how Linux has changed.
It got better but also worse in many ways
21:13 That is actually a legit Firefox logo from version 1 to 3. The blue globe logo is bundled in Firefox’s source code to differentiate that from Mozilla’s trademark logo. The blue globe is licensed in a much lenient license so that you can include in other softwares.
My brother has a lot of those Ubuntu CDs, And he never used any of them
Ask him if you can have them.
Reading the comments brings back so much nostalgia. I first got into Linux with Redhat 5. Spent most of the mid to late 90s with Slackware. Never really got too much into Ubuntu, though I did use Debian for awhile. I kind of have an infatuation with Gentoo. It has been my distro for over a decade. Mainly because I love watching code compile for some reason. A lot of the early installers used the text based installer. I believe they use ncurses.
I wish i wasn't a 1 year old when this was released
I was two
M Isa your a child
@@Darkest_matter i know...
If it makes you feel better, I was 1 week 1 day old.
No joke pretty sure my first hardrive, cd drive, and floppy drive all came from that same computer. My dad was a gateway fanboy back in the day. God I miss that fat ass Gateway boot screen. Such Nostalgia.
So it's 15 years old and still better than Windows 10 :)
Oh, being better than Winbloat 10 is not a high bar to clear.
10:07 Overscan? It thinks this is a TV/video signal, where you are supposed to ignore the outermost parts?
holy shit. 80GB hdd with a celeron and 512MB ram?! That was actually a pretty decent system for its day.
Don't forget the flat-screen. I ran Windows 98 SE on my Pentium III 650 MHz 10 GB HDD 64 MB RAM, then upgraded to 128 MB when Windows XP came out..
@@NETkoholik My first was a celeron 600 Mhz with 128MB ram and a 40GB HDD. I used it for 9 months then built one with 1 GB RAM, Athlon XP 1700+, GeForce 3 Ti200 AGP 4x and the same 40GB HDD until I had enough saved up for a 250GB HDD. Man. Those old days. I never did get Linux Mandrake working well.
Congrats on the sponsorship!
We make fun of Ubuntu these days, but back then Ubuntu was a god sent and they innovated on a lot of things.
There's a very good chance this is the version that's still installed on my Apple iBook G4. Ahhh, the memories. Thanks for showing us this, good sir. ⌨️
(16:26) I should point out, that back then, Ubuntu was shipping their own unofficial builds of Firefox, at least judging by the icon. Official builds would arrive in a later release, probably 6.06, 6.10, or 7.04.
17:08 widows has had Multiple desktops since the begining... Press windows keys + tab ... You can create as many as you like even in the early versions of windows 10
Absolutely The latest version of Ubuntu can indeed run on a Windows 98 PC. It's amazing how versatile these older operating systems can be allowing us to experience the power of modern Linux on vintage hardware. Just make sure to check the system requirements and do some research to ensure a smooth installation process.
17:05 The Windows version only works with apps that support it, so not every app will behave nicely with multiple desktops. In the Linux world, just about everything will work fine. And that applies to other multi-desktop GUIs as well, not just GNOME.