[ale] RH8.0: first impressions

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Mar 3 16:05:26 EST 2003


1994. Slackware floppies downloaded from UNC. Grabbed set A and N and
pulled the rest from inside a running Linux system. It took over a month
to get all the parameters right for X on a Trident video card and a full
color vga monitor. The first time I saw fvwm (and tkdesktop and fvwm2) I
nearly fell out of my chair. Then months spent tweaking dot files.

Now "it all just works". 

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 15:23, Geoffrey wrote:
> 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...
> 
> How about others??
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