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> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 12:54:40AM -0000, William Anderson wrote:
> >
> > not that ambitious yet, a good distro to actually work at
> is Slackware,
> > which never has really handed things to you on a plate - I
> cut my teeth on
> > 3.1 -> 3.4 and it left me with what i consider a good
> grounding in basic
> > linux.
>
> I can second this, though I can't remember which version of
> Slackware I
> started with. It used a kernel from the 1.2.x series, I
> remember that.
> Ah, yes, that was fun. I downloaded the A disk set from a BBS called
> Alba Maximus (which I'm sure was based somewhere in Glasgow -- it was
> certainly a local call)
Sadly missed, Alba was a Glasgow BBS. One of the best.
>using a 14k4 modem. Then I repartitioned our
> 40MB (!) hard disk on the 386/25 with 8MB RAM and installed Slackware.
>
> Of course, I nuked it all (or did we replace the hard disk?)
> to install
> the beta of Windows '95 I'd acquired a while later...
Of course in those days I was using an Amiga to connect to Fidonet etc.
Now I'm looking to Linux for the same level of control over my own machine.
cds
