Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3166 mails)

["Stuart Powell" <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello, everyone.

Back in 1993, I decided to try this new thing called Linux, as the
commercial Unices were all well beyond the purchasing power of a poor
student.  Unfortunately, the best distro I could find at the time,
Yggdrassil (sp), only came on CD.  As we were still using slow modems, and
the internet was still in its infancy, the chances of downloading a full
Linux distro were non-existent.

What was I to do ?  I saved my pennies and bought a Toshiba 2.2x CD-ROM
drive.  Wow, suddenly I found myself in the multimedia age.  I got my Linux
installed on my 486DX2-50, 16MB RAM machine, and was somewhat disappointed
to find out how little it could do at that time.  But it was a start.

So what's the point of this ?  Times change, technology moves forward (often
at a frightening pace), and we either have to keep up, or fall behind.  If
technology did not develop, we would still be using 8088 machines with <1MB
RAM, or worse, and TRON would still look super-high-tech.

Please stop whining about the lack of sources.  If it means that much to
you, I'll burn them to a sodding CD for you and mail it to you as soon as my
box set arrives.

Stuart.