-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Yes, Ydrasil which, I believe, changed its name to Slackware in about 1994 was the producer of one of the first editions I tried. Heracles
On 06/04/13 12:24, Michael Chesterton wrote: > 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJRX4NmAAoJEJk11efqjIS49kgIAJ/qf7Rx86vlMJnJi8HgekGo R0rtCjZKsgVxqUTsKbmw686omQ+kzIHGb4lhW8fv+ifQV7ImeyEpvtPYid5Z7gsx 1lUZQG4V1ltRLjkbdd0hM7V3nkYX1/udQNLOzZqYMF05vGeruBmjVdKVh3Y2j9J+ XhDWWIE/REmXxsrFEBi5+rIIqw8M6lIwAiR+oFdzMbXEOnETA3vEuj2K34D5xGU4 ZmFnvZSxhbE179dV/yKf087LyI7hZ0isF+5OOyzKPinnH/CV9ctqVezJD8y1JYK4 k4HETOQI/UXD514TXFvJZfXKTKc/4uQFj9MKGYcLNgvCfYyz/vMbYvEZBlDDyYw= =ZbxE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
