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blue95

A desktop for your childhood home's computer room

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What it is

A desktop for your childhood home's computer room

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by day3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-03-30 15:30:22 UTC to 2025-04-22 14:19:19 UTC.

012025-03-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMar 302025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 102025-04-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 22

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Mar 302025-03-30 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC110
Mar 312025-03-31 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 12025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 22025-04-02 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 32025-04-03 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-04 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 42025-04-04 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 52025-04-05 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 62025-04-06 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 72025-04-07 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 82025-04-08 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 92025-04-09 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 102025-04-10 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 112025-04-11 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 122025-04-12 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 132025-04-13 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 142025-04-14 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 152025-04-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 162025-04-16 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 172025-04-17 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-18 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 182025-04-18 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 192025-04-19 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 202025-04-20 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 212025-04-21 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 222025-04-22 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-23 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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thawkth·Apr 22, 2025
The closest I know of is Blue95. I have only run the live environment but it worked pretty well and was impressive. "Blue95 is a modern and lightweight desktop experience that is reminiscent of a bygone era of computing. Based on Fedora Atomic Xfce with the Chicago95 theme." https://github.com/winblues/blue95 Depending on your chosen desktop and era, there are also things like TDE (trinity desktop environment) a fork (or spiritual successor) of the KDE 3.x environment: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/media/screenshots/large/tde3.... And if you like Gnome 2.x, there's MATE: https://mate-desktop.org/
In SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces

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