Screenshot nostalgia.
 

Hi, just wonder if anyone had some 'really' old screenshots of slackware and X back in it's infancy. I've been using Slackware pretty much since 9.2, but wondering what X and window managers looked like were like in the early days.

Here's a shot of olvwm in Slackware 4.0. This was also the default window manager in Slackware 1.0.

http://www.linux-france.org/article/...olin/olvwm.gif

Wow! I got reply from Pat :D .... thanks :D

I use Fluxbox, so looks good... I don't see a cursor, so was the manager key binding?

The earliest screenshot I have is from Slackware 10.2 running XFce. :)

http://www2.citytel.net/~gnielsen/snapshot5.jpg

Hmm, let's see. . . .

xman is still in Slackware. Xclock, too. The xwd command still works to take a screenshot. Fortune is still part of the default install. The workspace menu "could" be from Fluxbox. I think I'm beginning to understand why they say Slackware is very stable. :)

I would submit a screenshot from 3.x but the command line would just look the same.

DNA
AKA mrascii

Screenshot from KDE1 would've been nice or early Enlightnment... BTW it is still possible to download Slackware since version 1.01 so you can try them all out yourself in a virtual machine or even real :) Floppies would be handy though.

Don't forget xv, which can also take screenshots and whose last revision was 1994.

I have 2 hardcopy screenshots of my Slackware system done in September 1994. I'm thinking that was Slackware 2.0, or maybe 2.0.1. They show a very simple X desktop, rxvt terminal, some other classic X things. I want to say the window manager is fvwm, but I'm not sure; I just sort of remember using fvwm before WindowMaker before Xfce. I was very proud at the time to be able to do an X screenshot and get it to print on my original HP Deskjet.

You should scan them :) I'd like to see THAT.

Lets not forget afterstep one of the first window managers i used. Here is a page with some links to screenshots http://xwinman.org/afterstep.php

Unfortunately, I don't think they would be admissible in court... The date isn't part of either screen shot (it was hand-written by me on the paper, along with which X driver and screen dumper was used), nor does it show anything specifically Linux or Slackware. Could have been screen-shot off any old Unix workstation of that decade (except I know they weren't).

You can find some videos of old Slackware versions here:

3.4 (1997) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npWG9fYEkh0

4.0 (1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRA2Bh1P4Yc

8.0 (2001) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a16GOCIGGEk