7 vintage Linux features I want back – and why they still matter

Old-school Linux had a lot of cool tricks up its sleeves. Some of the long-gone features made the OS really special. With these features, you could eke out serious cool factor and efficiency. Linux has always been ahead of its time. Even during its teething period, the open-source operating system showed great potential to those who hadn’t been blinded by looking at Windows for too long. And there were features! It seemed every time someone said or thought “Linux,” a new Linux feature was born. Some of those features came and went quickly because they simply had little value or popularity. Some, on the other hand, went to the great Matrix in the sky way ahead of their time. I think about some of those features every time I sit in…