[guestbest]

Even though it became Lindpire, the spiritual successor to lightweight and windows like was LXDE and Lubuntu.

It was Slackware that pioneered the loadlin boot loader installed on a dos partition that I think li does/linspire picked-up. This was all gradually killed off by ntfs and windows 2k

It was a magical time for Linux with konqueror as a viable desktop browser and galeon as the best browser available until IBM started sponsoring the project to make it like epiphany. Eventually konqueror was absorbed into WebKit for safari, proprietary flash made browsing on Linux unnecessary difficult (gnash came later), and Microsoft lawsuits were customary towards all friendly UX not on a Mac.

[agumonkey]

linspire who was using ocaml and then haskell, a rare thing at the time http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1506

[anthk]

Magical expect for compiling MPlayer by hand and doing voodoo to get the TV Tuner working. But XawTV and AleVT were cool.

[heavyset_go]

Like 20 years ago I was obsessed with getting MythTV running with a TV tuner, but kept running into driver issues and low spec'd hardware. It was still magical to me, though.

[anthk]

TVtime worked faster but if didn't have LIRC support, I can't remember. If it did, it was to setup, much more lightweight but without recording support.

Nowadays Kodi/XBMC it's the spiritual sucessor.

[WillAdams]

Very fond of lubuntu, which I managed to get installed on NTFS in a directory on my C:drive allowing switching back-and-forth between it and my Windows install, and really wish that that was still a thing.

[guestbest]

The focus turned to virtualization

[WillAdams]

Yeah, that doesn't work for me, since my machines aren't that fast, and I really, really want stylus support which wants hardware access.

[guestbest]

What are some good applications which require stylus support on Linux?

[WillAdams]

Annotating and marking up PDFs.

Drawing in apps such as Inkscape and Arita.

Working up 3D models using OpenSCAD Graph Editor.

Taking notes w/ a pen in class using Write by Stylus Labs or Journal.

[WillAdams]

Xournal, not Journal.