Can't help feeling fond nostalgia of Judah Milgram lending me media to install Slackware...with kernel version 0.99.4 or so... and feeling giddy when I bought the newest Slackware distro on 4 CD-ROMs not so long thereafter. Judah and Linux got me through grad school at Maryland while keeping some degree of sanity (e.g. I had on my home desk a machine that was effectively faster for my simulations than the "big" Sun SparcStation 10 I would have otherwise had to use on campus)..
--Daniel On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 10:51 AM David Eisner <deis...@umd.edu> wrote: > Having to configure and build a new kernel to support your new PC card > WiFi adapter, as a matter of course. Good times. I can't find a screencap > of the network config page, but this will trigger PTSD for some people: > https://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/kconf/xconfig.png > > -David > > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 8:37 AM Emery Rudolph <erudo...@umd.edu> wrote: > >> Yep, I had that same large stack of floppies and it was such an >> accomplishment to finally arrive at a system that had all of the components >> you needed, because so much had to be done from the command line and >> understanding how to dig into the internals of Linux to get everything to >> compile correctly. Those experiences made us very strong OS folks, but >> today everything is so much easier. I haven't had to compile a kernel for a >> very long time and my system runs like a top. I prefer Debian based systems >> and have been using Linux Mint since it came out. I tried Redhat and Fedora >> for a while, but once they were acquired by Oracle, I knew it was not going >> to end well for personal users. >> >> Like everything else, Mint have their glitches, but I have been very >> pleased with it thus far :-) >> >> ---------------- >> Very Best Regards, >> >> Emery Rudolph, MS >> >> Director >> >> Division of Information Technology >> >> erudo...@umd.edu >> >> (301) 405-9379 >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 8:28 AM Peter Teuben <teu...@umd.edu> wrote: >> >>> I think you have to be nostalgic perhaps. I did indeed learn linux on a >>> 15 floppy install from slackware in 94, but I've gone to redhat for a >>> while, and now quite a while I've been using kubuntu. All the different >>> distro's have good and bad sides. It's funny again that a 15 floppy >>> install on an i486 takes not a lot longer than a USB key install on a >>> modern i9. >>> On 2/28/22 08:22, Emery Rudolph wrote: >>> >>> Good morning, >>> >>> For those who are using Slackware, just wondering if you've considered >>> using other distros? I learned Linux on Slackware in the early-mid 90's and >>> grew quite adept at compiling and troubleshooting the OS, but as distros >>> matured, including package management, I left it behind. Every distro has >>> features that make them attractive to specific use cases, thus I am not >>> throwing shade on anyone for using anything that appeals to them, but >>> rather, I am interested in what features make Slackware an attractive >>> distro in 2022. >>> >>> ---------------- >>> Very Best Regards, >>> >>> Emery Rudolph, MS >>> >>> Director >>> >>> Division of Information Technology >>> >>> erudo...@umd.edu >>> >>> (301) 405-9379 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 9:43 PM Ben Stern <bst...@electromagnetic.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 10:23:24AM -0500, Judah Milgram wrote: >>>> > If anyone (who cares) didn't notice, Slackware 15.0 came out last >>>> week. >>>> >>>> At 22:22:22 on 2/2/22. :-) >>>> >>>> I switched to 15.0 from current and I miss the giddy pace of daily >>>> updates. >>>> Current has immediately started breaking things, as promised by its >>>> nature, >>>> and I'm happy with 15.0 but it's an adjustment. :-) >>>> >>>> Now waiting for SBo to move to 15.0 so I can upgrade all of my SBo >>>> packages >>>> trivially. >>>> >>>> > If this isn't an occasion for an UMGLUG I don't know what is. Virtual >>>> I >>>> > suppose. >>>> >>>> A virtual UMGLUG has not been tried. I am eager to try one. >>>> >>>> Ben >>>> -- >>>> Ben Stern >>>> This space intentionally left blank. >>>> >>>> You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux >>>> User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from >>>> this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the >>>> message signoff UM-LINUX in the body. >>>> >>> You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux >>> User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from >>> this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the >>> message signoff UM-LINUX in the body. >>> >>> You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux >> User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. 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