Red Hat 1.0 was actually released in October of '94. It didn't really resemble the Red Hat of today very much ;-). Didn't even have RPM until the next year!
<cheapshot>Although I guess, unlike some inferior distros, they actually bothered to use a package manager. I heard some distros are still stuck back in 94 on that score...</cheapshot> -DMZ On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:26 -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > Back when I started, there weren't as many choices. Slackware was one of > the main distros, in fact I don't recall any other distros that were > available back then (1994?). Maybe Debian. > > It works well, so I stick with it. > > Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Just out of curiosity, and as a newbie, why did you pick Slackware? > > > > Russ M > > > > > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, J. Milgram wrote: > > > > > Walmart has a pretty cheap laptop based on a 1.2 Mhz C3, and it would > > > seem to fit the bill, and I'm tempted. > > > > > > $600, 512 Mb RAM, DVD/CDROM, ethernet & wireless. > > > http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3595030 > > > > > > But have been reading some slightly negative things about the chip on > > > the web (slower than one would expect, won't handle Pentium-optimized > > > binaries). Anyone have any experience to share on this? > > > > > > The machine comes with Lindows so at least there's hope (I'd scrap it > > > though, and install Slackware). > > > > > > Judah > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Russ Main > >
