• VM Tools for MS-DOS and Windows 3.x

    calendar Apr 1, 2015 · 1 min read · april retro  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy
    Notice

    This was just an April Fool's joke, sorry.

    VMware offers software packages including additional applications and drivers for the most support guest operating systems - these packages are also called VMware Tools. Beside recent operating systems also older releases are supported - e.g. there are …


    Read More

  • vRetro trip: MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 in 2015

    calendar Mar 6, 2015 · 12 min read · retro  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy
    Because of a recent comment on this blog I stumbled upon an interesting Abandonware webseite. For me this was a reason for diving into a world of forgotten software (thank you very much for the hint, Frank!). While browsing the software archive I vividly recalled my first steps with the computer. Back then - in …
    Read More

  • CDE under Debian Squeeze

    calendar Apr 15, 2013 · 2 min read · cde retro  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy
    Many administrators or IT enthusiasts still might know Common Desktop Environment (CDE) from old UNIX days. Introduced in 1993, it was Unix's standard desktop for HP-UX, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris and Tru64 for more than 10 years. Even if Solaris dropped its CDE support 3 years ago, the old desktop is still used in HP-UX, …
    Read More

  • Retro: S.u.S.E. Linux 5.0 (1997)

    calendar Mar 13, 2013 · 2 min read · retro  ·
    Share on: linkedin copy

    After 6 months of developing, openSUSE 12.3 was released today.

    Time to have a look at the roots. openSUSE is based on the former S.u.S.E. Linux - S.u.S.E stood for the german company name (Gesellschaft für Software- und System-Entwicklung GmbH).

    The first official S.u.S.E. version 4.2 was released 1996 and came with …


    Read More