1985 – 2004retired
Aldus PageMaker
“It taught the world that anyone could lay out a page — then let InDesign take the next shift.”
“It packaged the future, then handed the keys to its own children.”
Red Hat Linux was a widely used commercial open-source distribution that put Linux on ordinary desktops and servers alike. First released in non-beta form in May 1995, it came bundled with the Red Hat Package Manager, and RPM went on to become the starting point for other distributions like Mandriva Linux and Yellow Dog Linux. For nearly a decade it was, for many people, simply what Linux looked like.
In 2003, Red Hat shifted its focus to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Red Hat Linux 9, the final release, reached its official end-of-life on April 30, 2004. It was not left entirely alone: the Fedora Legacy project kept publishing updates through 2006 until those too wound down in early 2007. Its spirit lived on in two directions — the enterprise line it begat and Fedora, the community-supported, free-of-cost distribu
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“It taught the world that anyone could lay out a page — then let InDesign take the next shift.”
“A personal supercomputer that finished the classic Mac OS with dignity.”
“Racked, stacked, and quietly slotted out - the server that let Macs do the heavy lifting”