BaalInvoker, I don’t know the distro, but surely the messenger is based on Matrix protocol
eya,
YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH, Kali
JWBananas, It would have been BackTrack Knoppix back then. And even that wasn’t released until 2000.
5714, Initial Release: 2013-03-13
Neo lived in 1999.
jkrtn, In a simulation 1999.
cyborganism, The movie came out in 1999. In the movie, they state that it’s 1999 (in the Matrix anyway). Neo is pretty tech savvy and a renowned hacker.
My assumption is he would’ve used FreeBSD. Or, maybe, Slackware. But I’m leaning more towards BSD.
delirious_owl, Remember he presses Ctrl+x to try to get rid of the message on his screen. That’s Unix, right?
zellian, I’d argue that he’d use OpenBSD and be running his own firewall, web server, email server, and ftp server.
possiblylinux127, PC-BSD
Aganim, Or SuSE Linux, the non-slackware or jurix version was bleeding edge at the time.
qjkxbmwvz, Maybe both? BSD for his server, Slackware for his desktop. Or something.
ezekielmudd, In 1999, I bet he was running Gentoo.
cyborganism, The first release was in 2002.
helenslunch, Definitely not Gentoo
qwertyqwertyqwerty, Definitely Gentoo
MxM111, Nah. It is DOS with Norton Commander.
lemmyseizethemeans, I just can’t believe I just read the words Norton Commander.
It’s like the Proust story where he smells a macaroon and all of a sudden he’s remembering an avalanche of things long forgotten.
My brain defragging
lemmyvore, Dos Navigator
cyborganism, Bwahahahahah
vanderbilt, Man I wish FreeBSD hadn’t fallen to the wayside. It’s really cohesive and feels put together in a way not Linux distro ever has.
acockworkorange, I mean, it’s decades older with a history of being used in business critical applications…
possiblylinux127, Except it uses push over licensing
pmk, That’s a GPL point of view. Most BSD users I’ve talked to prefer a more permissive license. Theo said: “GPL fans said the great problem we would face is that companies would take our BSD code, modify it, and not give back. Nope – the great problem we face is that people would wrap the GPL around our code, and lock us out in the same way that these supposed companies would lock us out. Just like the Linux community, we have many companies giving us code back, all the time. But once the code is GPL’d, we cannot get it back. Ironic.”
possiblylinux127, And where system is doing better, Linux or BSD? Also the point of the GPL is not to give back. You can have GPL code that is read only and it doesn’t hurt a thing. The point is you can get the code running on your computer and freely make changes to it.
pmk, Doing better in what way? Number of installs or being robust and secure? If we go by numbers one could argue that Windows is doing best on the desktop, and that proprietary code therefore is something to strive for. Either way it’s a tangent of the original statement, that the BSD license is a “pushover” license, which I oppose, because the BSD devs are deliberately allowing their code to be used by anyone for any reason.
umbrella, i guess this might be why a lot of processing and storage clusters use it behind closed doors with proprietary code we will never see.
pmk, Which is fine with for example OpenBSD, they write “ISC or Berkeley style licences are preferred, the GPL is not acceptable when adding new code, NDAs are never acceptable. We want to make available source code that anyone can use for ANY PURPOSE, with no restrictions. We strive to make our software robust and secure, and encourage companies to use whichever pieces they want to.”
cyborganism, You know, I’ve never used it. Maybe I’ll install it in a VM tonight and give it a whirl.
sentient_loom, Is it still worth using? Say, for a web dev? Or is it less supported?
redcalcium, It’s usually used for storage servers these days. ZFS is most stable there.
AnUnusualRelic, Ix (Truenas) is transitioning to linux though.
vanderbilt, Honestly it isn’t. Support for anything front-end related is way more sparse compared to Linux.
sentient_loom, That’s a shame. I’d love a new exotic OS to try.
laurelraven, I don’t think I’ve ever heard FreeBSD described as either “new” or “exotic”
sentient_loom, New and exotic to me.
laurelraven, I’ll give you “new” but it’s about as far from exotic as you can get… Not a bad thing, BTW, and I highly recommend giving it a try, it’s an excellent system, though probably better for a server than a workstation/desktop (though it definitely can be a very good workstation/desktop if you like)
Its Ports system is the inspiration for Gentoo’s Portage, BTW
vanderbilt, “hello system” is pretty nice to look at, and has some Mac-isms I find helpful. FreeBSD has a new release recently, so maybe Nomad or GhostBSD could be worth trying. You’ll find FreeBSD is a lot more “consistent” compared to Linux, but be prepared for random hardware to not work.
buh, Probably debian or slackware, there weren’t that many in 1999
lemmyvore, Mandrake, Suse, Corel, Red Hat, Turbo, Conectiva, PLD, Caldera, Rock, Coyote… that’s just the more well known distros, there were dozens at that point already.
acockworkorange, There was a lot more that you’d think.
TimeSquirrel, But most of those were extremely shitty or niche and got abandoned. Except Mandrake. That one was pretty good but I think I remember they were constantly having funding issues.
Mandrake was to Redhat as Ubuntu is to Debian now.
acockworkorange, So, like today?
mogoh, KDE NEOn
SnotFlickerman, Slackware.
avidamoeba, Ubuntu LTS
dr_jekell, Hannah Montana Linux
gregorum, i’m sure he runs his own, custom distro he spun himself
sin_free_for_00_days, LFS of course.
highalectical, Tails
ta00000, Crunchbang #! (Or I guess they call it bunsenlabs now?)
biribiri11, GNU/Hurd
ShittyBeatlesFCPres, macOS
hides
ShittyBeatlesFCPres, I use Fedora and Debian, btw. I’m just as old and mostly stable even if I’ll never be perfect.
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