On Wed, April 18, 2007 9:41 am, John Carter wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Darrell Olsen wrote: >> Case in point is this little attention diversion of the Linux >> Distro Timeline link which I hope you all also find interesting. >> >> <http://kde-files.org/CONTENT/content-files/44218-linuxdistrotimeline-7.2.png> >> > > Cool. > > What a trip around memory lane. > > I remember the "Wow, Great! What do I do now?" feeling I had when I > first booted SLS linux in 1993...
God yes I remember getting redhat 4.something going on a 486 from a cd that came in the back of a book. The joy of the first twm X session. The awe at xfishtank. The pain of rebooting to windows to use the modem to find the answer to the next problem. The joy at google beta actually finding answers to linux questions when altavista search had been so poor.. <python mode=yorkshireman> None of this namby pamby udev and automatic hardware detection, oh no, we had t'strip machine down, decipher chipset markings and recompile t'kernel on pocket calculator </python> -- Nick Rout
