Preferred the way the old version looked, but I can’t really fault liferea

People talking over each other. Other than IASIP, I can’t think where they get this right.

That’s even worse!

Probably read The Sirius Mystery and took it as fact

There is a mirror of this site

Need to get on over to [email protected]

A Thinkpad will have to do

See most of these on the Arch forums

It is. That or it was very coincidentally down for the exact amount of time as DDG.

XMMS, Beep, Audacious or whatever were always good enough.

Where’s the best place to start?

At least Reaper has Linux ports, better than nothing.

LILO it works so well

LFS?

And yay

Wouldn’t that be Gentoo?

Basic commands, there isn’t really much difference at all

OpenRC seems quite straightforward

I’d imagine it would work fine. You can always try Mint out from the LiveUSB and see if any issues occur.

The installer’s defaults should be enough to get it done without any hassle.

It was before I had a CD writer (or DVD drive!), and it came with Linux Format magazine. I think it was the easiest and most user friendly way of getting started at the time.