On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Heracles <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Ah! The early days! I must have started a little later than you - either > late 92 or early 93 - as my version was on 11 5 1/4 inch floppies. I had > to boot on disk 11 and then install using the other 10 floppies. The > install was awkward but what a sense of achievement when you got it > working. My system was a 386SX16 with 1 MB RAM. > I was so impressed with the speed of Linux I have used nothing else since. > Heracles > My first install was in about 95-96, there was some distro starting with y that i have no idea how to pronounce or spell, I think slackware was my first install, but I ordered a midnight magic cd and tried them all. A colleague recommended debian and I switch to that. Full time linux at home was pretty quick afterwards, and full time at work as a desktop was probably sometime in the naughties. I ran lotus notes under wine, which ran really well. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
