Please create an account to participate in the Slashdot moderation system

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×
Debian GNU is Not Unix KDE Open Source Linux News

LinuxScreenshots.org Closes. All Screenshot Tours Released For Downloading (linuxscreenshots.org) 46

A new announcement on their web site reads: LinuxScreenshots.org is closed. An archive of all screenshot tours from this site has been made freely available to the community, which consists of 2300 releases from 580 distributions. You may download this archive for fun, or to start your own Linux screenshots website. Please help seed torrents. I contacted the site's owner, who confirmed the news, saying their goal is to let the community take control of the screenshots. The archives are available on Dropbox and BitTorrent.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

LinuxScreenshots.org Closes. All Screenshot Tours Released For Downloading

Comments Filter:
  • by jfdavis668 ( 1414919 ) on Saturday September 10, 2016 @02:57PM (#52863433)
    Pictures of Linux desktops? Why was someone even collecting them in the first place? At least pictures of cats are funny.
    • Ah, a newbie (Score:5, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 10, 2016 @03:21PM (#52863489)

      You don't remember how it was back in the day... aesthetics does matter; you don't want to work with on a desktop that hurts your eyes. Back around 2000-2005, the quality of linux desktops varied widely. Some of the KDE centric ones would render GTK stuff all wrong (Mandrake, for example); some of the Gnome centric ones were just uglier than sin. All of them had something wonky, so the only way to know if you would likely be able to live with a distro's wonkiness was to take a look at.

      Now, back in the day, you didn't just download an image of every distro to come down the pipe (there were way more of them 15 years ago) and install it in a VM, like you can do today. It took all day to download a distro, and usually ate up a big chunk of your bandwidth cap. Then, in order so see how it would really behave you had to install it on the real hardware you were planning to use it on.

      So, instead of installing it or looking at a youtube video like you do today, you'd look at linuxscreenshots.org to see if you thought a new distro was worth a shot. I agree that today in the world of standardized desktop software, fewer distros, fast internet connections and lightweight VMs on overpowered desktop hardware it's kind of lost its purpose. Which is why they're shutting down.

      But back in the day, they had a purpose and I'm happy they filled it.

      • Re:Ah, a newbie (Score:4, Informative)

        by willoughby ( 1367773 ) on Saturday September 10, 2016 @03:48PM (#52863557)

        Yeah, I remember going there to check out the differences between Windowmaker & Afterstep.

      • by darkain ( 749283 )

        "fewer" distributions... LOL. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... [wikimedia.org]

      • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward

        For those thinking of installing Windows 10, here's the screenshots website: http://www.theworldsworstwebsiteever.com/

      • My "back in the day" proceeded Linux even existing. I still don't see the point behind LinuxScreenShots.org.
  • by boudie2 ( 1134233 ) on Saturday September 10, 2016 @04:33PM (#52863683)
    It's a 47 gigabyte download ... you'd have to be really dedicated to get that one.
  • Is it possible to simply drop it on Flickr?

You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.

Working...