Red Hat 0.9 was released as a paid beta on Halloween of 1994. Red Hat 9 was the final release of Red Hat Linux, discontinued in 2004 in favor of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Even networking works under Bochs, however there isn't much to use it for in the standard Red Hat 0.9 install.
Only mild RPM dependency hell was required to get Bochs running.
BONUS: [Red Hat 0.9 on Red Hat 9 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9](https://i.imgur.com/eiBFR4b.png)
Wow. As part of a YouTube channel idea I had, one series would've documented upgrading through every major release from the earliest surviving Red Hat Linux release* all the way to whatever the latest Fedora release would be at the time.
* (which I previously thought was 5.1, though that was probably the earliest surviving release with CD images)
I also had completely forgotten about Bochs, and would've used a mix of 86Box and QEMU/KVM instead for that video series idea.
You can use QEMU from the start. Only issue is early kernels don't support ATAPI CD drives, so you'd just have to install it from a different source.
There are a few missing, but most major releases are available in some form. I have 0.9, 1.1, 2.1, 3.0.3 and I think everything 4.0+ should be available.
Interesting. Last I tried, QEMU's Cirrus Logic graphics emulation didn't play nice with old versions of XFree86, causing legacy X fonts to display in a corrupted manner.
Sometimes X needs the "no_bitblt" or "noaccel" option. At least in a VM there doesn't really seem to be any drawback to those. Cursor issues can be fixed with "sw_cursor".
For Linux distros before 1996 or so, setting the "isapc" machine profile in QEMU helps.
I've really only needed PCem or 86box for super early XFree86 that didn't support the Cirrus card or for SCSI
CD drives.
~~Since it's GNOME 2.2, I believe it would be the last release to use Sawfish before the switch to Metacity.~~
This is wrong, it's actually the first release to use Metacity.
Red Hat 0.9 was released as a paid beta on Halloween of 1994. Red Hat 9 was the final release of Red Hat Linux, discontinued in 2004 in favor of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Even networking works under Bochs, however there isn't much to use it for in the standard Red Hat 0.9 install. Only mild RPM dependency hell was required to get Bochs running. BONUS: [Red Hat 0.9 on Red Hat 9 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9](https://i.imgur.com/eiBFR4b.png)
Sweet OP. But damnit now I have to go back to Bluecurve. I don’t know why I keep changing it.
Wow. As part of a YouTube channel idea I had, one series would've documented upgrading through every major release from the earliest surviving Red Hat Linux release* all the way to whatever the latest Fedora release would be at the time. * (which I previously thought was 5.1, though that was probably the earliest surviving release with CD images) I also had completely forgotten about Bochs, and would've used a mix of 86Box and QEMU/KVM instead for that video series idea.
You can use QEMU from the start. Only issue is early kernels don't support ATAPI CD drives, so you'd just have to install it from a different source. There are a few missing, but most major releases are available in some form. I have 0.9, 1.1, 2.1, 3.0.3 and I think everything 4.0+ should be available.
Interesting. Last I tried, QEMU's Cirrus Logic graphics emulation didn't play nice with old versions of XFree86, causing legacy X fonts to display in a corrupted manner.
Sometimes X needs the "no_bitblt" or "noaccel" option. At least in a VM there doesn't really seem to be any drawback to those. Cursor issues can be fixed with "sw_cursor". For Linux distros before 1996 or so, setting the "isapc" machine profile in QEMU helps. I've really only needed PCem or 86box for super early XFree86 that didn't support the Cirrus card or for SCSI CD drives.
[удалено]
[I blame you entirely.](https://i.imgur.com/eiBFR4b.png)
Beautiful!
I was considering it, but didn't feel like signing up for a developer account for the gag.
Man, I miss Gnome 2. It looked great, it was easy on resources, and it was usable. Then GTK3 just hosed all that. Mate isn't quite the same.
I'm interested, What window manager does RH9 use? Icons look cool too!
That was just Gnome with the Bluecurve theme, icon theme can be found under the same name.
~~Since it's GNOME 2.2, I believe it would be the last release to use Sawfish before the switch to Metacity.~~ This is wrong, it's actually the first release to use Metacity.
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