Oh my, many memories flooding back from my early linux days. This linux discussion caused me to go look at Slackware's history so I could somewhat pinpoint a year when I began using linux. Slackware begin in 1993, so that's about when I began using it. A professor at the university, where I was studying EET, loaned me 110 3.5-inch HD floppies containing the Slackware distribution. At the time, CDROM drives were very expensive and I don't remember seeing any/many computers on campus with them, and I certainly did not have one in my home computer. I had a 80286-based system at home so I could not run linux at home, and therefore installed it initially on a 80386-based machine in the ham radio shack. I was immediately compiling streamlined kernels to get as much horsepower out of those systems. A short time later I ended up acquiring a 80386-based machine at home, and have been running at home ever since.
Of course, this discussion also brings back memories of my early days on the internet; before HTTP/world-wide-web. Gopher, WAIS, telnetting to MUDs, FTP sites, and so much more. In a way, the advent of HTTP caused the internet experience to be limited (man, that sounds like an incorrect statement!)
Oh my, many memories flooding back from my early linux days. This linux discussion caused me to go look at Slackware's history so I could somewhat pinpoint a year when I began using linux. Slackware begin in 1993, so that's about when I began using it. A professor at the university, where I was studying EET, loaned me 110 3.5-inch HD floppies containing the Slackware distribution. At the time, CDROM drives were very expensive and I don't remember seeing any/many computers on campus with them, and I certainly did not have one in my home computer. I had a 80286-based system at home so I could not run linux at home, and therefore installed it initially on a 80386-based machine in the ham radio shack. I was immediately compiling streamlined kernels to get as much horsepower out of those systems. A short time later I ended up acquiring a 80386-based machine at home, and have been running at home ever since.
Of course, this discussion also brings back memories of my early days on the internet; before HTTP/world-wide-web. Gopher, WAIS, telnetting to MUDs, FTP sites, and so much more. In a way, the advent of HTTP caused the internet experience to be limited (man, that sounds like an incorrect statement!)