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Xoftware Review: Final (Copy) [Edited] (4).xlsx
Added 2025-05-27 03:41:47 +0000 UTCI've uploaded a new version, this should be final. The only change is that I tempered the comment about Wayland. Sorry to anyone who left comments on the last version, feel free to leave em again.
yeah idk what i'm gonna name this one. anyway, hi, I can't go back to the office and work yet but I wanted to make a video and I've been tooling around with old unix/linux stuff and just happened to come across this. weird kinda video from me, hope you like it. healing going pretty well
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I love freecell
Karl Voelker
2025-07-25 06:24:21 +0000 UTCThere's also something called "Browservice" that you can find on GitHub. It's essentially a Chromium proxy, it does the actual browsing on a modern computer, and it sends the pages as images to the browser you're accessing it with. It's not perfect, it's too slow to actually watch videos, and I don't think the sound is sent to the client, but it's really easy to install (it's a service that you can run on any Windows PC or even on a Raspberry Pi), it works on any browser that can run JavaScript (so basically all of them since the mid 90s) and it works on any type of machines (desktop, laptops, smartphones, Linux, Windows, OS/2, Mac OS, whatever).
Cedric Tremblay
2025-06-03 21:05:17 +0000 UTCI was fully expecting at least one DMX joke in here and was disappointed there were none. With a window manager named X, how can you not say "X gon' give it to ya"? lol That Firefox thing is interesting - seems like you could almost get away with using Windows 9x in 2025 by installing an X Window server and using the Linux version of modern programs, instead of relying on stuff like Mypal on Windows XP, if you really wanted to do such a thing
Danny Forche
2025-05-29 21:16:18 +0000 UTCHoly shit. Just... holy shit. This video was amazing! You covered a lot of topics that were basically "story of my life" in the 90s and early 2000s. I started using Linux in 1995 and quickly got familiar with X, and its networked nature, and the university I had just started at had it all as well. Sun workstations with X displays, and even a room full of X terminals. This stuff was absolutely FASCINATING to me and I loved being able to bareback SSH to another machine and launch a program there and have it appear at my station or terminal. There was plenty of room for shenanigans, too, though a lot of that was solved with increased security later on. At home I used very similar software called X-Win 32; it was basically the same exact thing but without all the ancillary utilities that came with the software you showed off. But still, it was SO COOL at the time to be able to leave a text-only VGA console on my Linux box, and be able to run all the Linux applications on my Windows box through networked X, taking advantage of the big monitor I had which I preferred to have on the Windows machine since I played games there. It was the best of both worlds, and totally ahead of its time. An xterm running over a networked X11 connection was way better than typical native Windows telnet clients. Thanks for making this video. It was a wondeful nostalgia romp for me and I'm sure other Linux nerds from this time. Yeah, this stuff was used mostly in business environments, but a lot of us nerds THRIVED on playing with this stuff. Keep feeling better! <3
Zorin the Lynx
2025-05-29 18:18:00 +0000 UTCme: can't get file sharing and RDP to work on home network G: this fucking masterpiece of IT
UrbanDK
2025-05-29 14:19:18 +0000 UTCAround 35 minutes in you talk about how the local and remote disks are different and X never planned to solve this. I guess that's technically true, but X came from Project Athena, and Project Athena *did* have a solution - AFS. (And no, the A doesn't stand for Athena, it stands for Andrew. As in Andrew Carnegie - that filesystem was developed by Carnegie Mellon.) You can log in to any computer on any OS and your home directory and all your applications just show up. The completeness and robustness of networked computing in the early 90s is kind of shocking, and it's sad how in many ways we've just been regressing ever since. It would be awesome if you wanted to dive deeper into Project Athena and Andrew after this - it's all open-source and you can get most of it running on relatively modern *nix systems.
Quentin Smith
2025-05-29 03:59:00 +0000 UTCI loved this video. I hope you’re well.
PT
2025-05-29 03:07:29 +0000 UTC
