[ale] RH8.0: first impressions

[Joe]

Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> writes:

> Joe wrote:
>  > (My first Linux install was on a 120MB drive,
> > which seemed bloody enormous at the time... But that was before there
> > were "distributions".)
> 
> I'm curious, since you mention your first effort.  I think my first
> Linux install was around 1995.  It was cdrom based though.  Slackware.
> 
> I can still remember at marveling at the login prompt...

1992. Kernel version 0.92, IIRC. No distro, just a boot floppy, a root
floppy, and some instructions snarfed from alt.os.linux about how to
get the source for stuff *not* present on the root floppy. I had
recently encountered Unix for the first time - as a graduate assistant
at UGA, my job was to administer all the SunOS boxen in the AI lab. I
liked it. I got Coherent for my PC.  Later on, I was running some
memory-hungry genetic algorithms, and Coherent, which was limited to
64K per task, was not up to the job. Linux was. QED.

Cheers,

-- Joe Knapka
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