[ale] RH8.0: first impressions

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1994 - started with SCO i386 and switched to Slackware in late 94/early 95. IIRC it was on 3 or 4 floppies and was version 0.9x or 1.x. I have been an off and on user ever since, either multi-boot with other OS's (M$ and warp) or networked. I use Linux mostly for server type stuff as I haven't had the motivation to get a real, working wine going for the games. Lazy SOB Syndrome.

Ed.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe
Sent: 3/3/2003 4:02:43 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] RH8.0: first impressions

> 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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