<to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 04:44:52AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > >> A revolt I started at my place in 1998 when I built my first "PC" and=20 >> installed Red Hat 5.0 on it [...] > >:-) > > About the time I had my first Linux (perhaps mine was a tad earlier: > I think RH wasn't around yet; Yggdrasil was a thing. My first distro > was SLS, on 30 diskettes. I bought the 386 DX40 with 4 MB (!) RAM > explicitly for that. > > Times, them ;-) > > Nice to watch how things and undergrounds change over time, anyway.
yes. :) my first boot of linux was sometime before 1996 but i can't say exactly when or what version it was. it came on two of the 3.5 inch floppy drive disks. i had a Zenith Z-Note back then, i386 it didn't even have a math co-processor, my checkbook register shows i bought that in July of '92. i booted it, played around for a few minutes and then that was it. while i had plenty of unix experience from computer labs i didn't have any real reason to do anything with it for home use. i was mainly using the notebook for e-mail and usenet and that was all on Win3.1 i didn't start using linux and Debian on a daily basis until sometime around slink or potato. by then i had bought a new Dell desktop computer (which i'm using the case from for this computer). i still had a booting win98 and winEXP for some time after that but as time moved on i got things switched over from Multiplan and a few other things i no longer cared much about. songbird
