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GNOME and Red Hat Linux eleven years ago (2009)

GNOME and Red Hat Linux Eleven Years Ago Four years ago, I switched on an old PC and found a seven year old (at that time) copy of Linux on it. I still use parts of the 1998 Red Hat Linux, today.

GnomeCard, an address book application, and the Gnumeric spreadsheet had been added by the time of Red Hat Linux 6.0, which was released in April 1999. [2] Rick Moen comments: In the grand open source tradition of Slightly Dopey Initial Project Names They'd Rather We No Longer Remember, Rasmus's language and related code were originally called "Personal Home Page". [3] Rick Moen comments: I hear that the show-stopper with Electric Eyes was Imlib's limitations: Rendering and scaling were primitive and memory-management faulty, and it was missing too many needed features.

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