Lemmy is so weird. Some of the memes make me think that average audience here is 15 yrs old, but then there is the occasional post like this which only 70 year old ancient wizards will understand.
Growing up doesn’t mean we stop finding a well timed fart funny. It means 70 years of memories is still tickled by a crude punchline. Old people and young people have the same sense of humor but slang causes transmission errors.
Bet
I resent that. I’m 38 and I distinctly remember this. RedHat 4.2 (Manhattan) circa 1997 I think. That was when I started messing with Linux.
How do you have to be 70 years old to understand this?
I bet half of people surfing right now on r/all wouldn’t.
Thank ya. as a red-neck american muhself Iz often feel lef tout of the fancy gizmo conversations yall be havin.
Just install them La’nuxes for them cozzy feelings.
Ah, old Red Hat. What memories. When I tell people my first distro was RedHat 5.2 I need to explain that I don’t mean RHEL.
Hah, same/similar release as me — family had dialup at the time, but I found “RedHat Linux Secrets 5.x” (with included CD) at a garage sale.
Nice, RH 5.2 was my fist stable long term install, and Slackware 7 was my second love… 😃
That wasn’t the installer or red hat specific. There used to be language filters in Linux including Swedish Chef, those just got included in the language packs and want so he redhat specific development
and want so he redhat specific development
Back up!
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Top text: At one point, Red Hat Linux had a “Redneck” language option for its installer. I’ll just leave these images here: Four images of the Red Hat Linux installer with “Welcome to Red Hat Linux” above it and “/ between elements : selects : next screen” below. The first dialogue box reads: [Choose a Language] What language should we use during the installation process? English Czech French German Norwegian Redneck (selected) Romanian Turkish [OK]
Second dialogue box: [keyboard type] whichadese keyboards you got? tr_f-latin5 tr_q-latin5 tralt trf trq uk us-prokey us (selected) [yep]
Third dialogue box: [installation method] which kinda stuff has the packages, junior? Local CDROM (selected) NFS image hard drive FTP SMB image [yep] [back up!]
Fourth dialogue box: [note] stick in your Red Hat CD into dat coffee holder on the front [yep] [back]
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This was also in Mandrake Linux.
Because Mandrake was a Red Hat fork
Because Mandrake was a Redhat thingymabob*
Core memory unlocked. This had to be Red Hat 7? One of the few releases before they ditched home/personal use and went all in on enterprise server.
i think they removed this in 5.2 since it broke everything if you used it outside of the installer and was only there to test locales
whichadose
cotton eyed Joe approved.
yep
Someone should totally recreate this language pack for a modern Linux Distro, or maybe even an interface language for lemmy?
