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Screenshot Series #3

Today’s post goes further back a bit to 2004-05-21. FreeBSD 4.10-PRERELEASE running Fluxbox on Istana (Dynabook G4PME, PentiumIII 1.0GHz). The laptop was my main “lab” after getting a Celeron 2.2GHz machine (先代valkyrie, now a family PC back home). Not a lot, but it was flippy fast for normal usage and doing class work. There were weeks of daily kernel and world building, tweaking the kernel options to load only the options that is needed. Boot time to a usable Fluxbox desktop was under 10sec (skipping FreeBSD boot menu, going straight to startx). Had a hard time waiting for the sound card driver to work, helping the driver developer to test with success.

Regarding the windows inside the screen; aterm was my favorite terminal emulator, with good multibyte support and pseudo-transparency; emacs console mode editing a homegrown rss fetching script; and X-Chat hanging around #freebsd and #fluxbox.

I had another machine running OpenBSD on a very worn PentiumII 233MHz, which may show up in a terminal window somewhere in the coming screen shots.