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Installing Yggdrasil Linux - a 1995 Vintage Retro Linux installation VHS (Lost Media)

Thought this was a pretty interesting piece of Linux history, and unintentionally quite funny as well :p

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@PirateFrog If you can get past the way he pronounces Yggdrasil, this was a pretty good video, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cynd0guSUvM
- Ick-draw-zel
Very cool.
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!
- I bought one of those release CDs. I used it to be able to use ppp + my 486's modem to connect to my employer's network which let me WFH on an 80x24 tty.
  
  An excellent return on the $99 spent. :)
In 1996 I got a copy of Yggdrasil Linux as a CD in the back of a large book, about 1,000 pages. I believe that it was simply a printout of all the man pages, although it might have had instructions on installing and basic Linux usage.
I live for these types of videos. I may be autistic.

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