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		emilsedgh on March 3, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later First time I installed Linux, I was trying to Gaim on it. I managed to compile Gaim before I managed to install it from RPM packages. Using Debian was a moment of pure epiphany. Good times.

noisy_boy on March 4, 2023 [–]

I remember using Mandrake (later Mandriva) - it also used rpm. Dependency hell was an issue there too; it probably had to do with state of rpm more than the distro itself.

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