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Installing Yggdrasil Linux - a 1995 Vintage Retro Linux installation VHS (Lost Media) (m.youtube.com)
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Thought this was a pretty interesting piece of Linux history, and unintentionally quite funny as well :p

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[-] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Funny to see a YT-style video from 1995.

I was curious about Yggdrasil and I found this little piece of history on Wikipedia:

A beta release was made on 18 February 1993.[4][7] The beta's cost was US$60. LGX's beta release in 1993 contained the 0.99.5 version of the Linux kernel, along with other software from GNU and X.[7] By 22 August 1993, the Yggdrasil company had sold over 3100 copies of the LGX beta distribution.[8]

Yggdrasil made $186,000 selling CDs with a beta version. Making CDs was probably much more expensive back then, but I am sure they got a volume discount for a run of ~3,000 units.

The release version was $99!

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