Michael Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 10:38:10AM -0600, John Pierce wrote: > >> Back about 1998 I was a newbie, I remember my first install and the >> fun I had. I installed Redhat downloaded and did the rpm install. I >> got the the log in prompt and logged in as root. I had no clue how to >> do even a simple directory listing. I went back to windows and surfed >> the web, i found some documentation about the man command and one >> suggested to type man ls. Imagine what I learned. >> > > Heh... memories. > > Before the www and Linux was around, I had been running FidoNet BBS systems > on DOS and OS/2. I got laid off from my job and decided I wanted to learn > something completely new (to me), so I decided to install Unix. A friend > had a set of Esix floppies... 54 1.44MB floppies that made up a basic > install of Everex's brand of AT&T SystemVR4 Unix. > > I installed it. Aside from the fact that it took 18 hours to do from > floppies (and I had to do it three times because of random floppy read > errors), when it was finished and I logged in, all I saw was "$". X? > GUI? You've gotta be kidding, this was a text mode only install. > > Not encouraging. > > I had read somewhere that the "ls" command worked like DOS's "dir", and I > had also learned about the "man" command. But for a while, all I could do > was log in and type "ls", and "man man", "man ls"... > > Eventually I learned how to set up uucp networking, downloaded X, compiled it > (what a nightmare!) and got twm running. > > My roommate and I set up a lan. We heard rumors about this thing called > Linux, it would actually boot and run off a single floppy. I didn't believe > it, so I downloaded it. It was version 0.98something, IIRC. It worked! > > Along came a distribution... Slackware. From there things started > progressing nicely, through RedHat, and Mandrake, and a short detour into > FreeBSD. > > I am amazed these days when I do something like a SUSE 10.2 install, and > pretty much everything comes up configured and working. > > We've come a long way. > > My first Linux install was also Slackware. I recall downloading the various floppy packages, according to what I wanted to install.
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