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by Gordonjcp 1063 days ago
> How did it compare with Slackware? Or Yggradsil [7] or SLS [8] if you happened to have used those?

I can't remember what it was like running Ubuntu 12 and that was only ten years ago, Lasermoon was 30...

Everything was command-line, not least because I didn't have enough space to install X. It worked okay. I feel like the compiler might not have been gcc? Not sure. I know that around the late 90s there was gcc and egcs, which was kind of a fork, that re-merged - I used that on Redhat 6, not RHEL6 but Redhat 6, with Gnome, and the K Desktop Environment as an option (the first versions of both!).

I guess I could trail about and see if I could find images of Lasermoon and try to install it, probably on a VM. If you're interested I could make a video, I guess?

Edit: this was the CD! https://archive.org/details/Shop0396