On Wednesday 27 February 2002 04:51 am, Calinoiu Alexandru Nicolae wrote:
(Of course I started running Linux with 0.95 - luckily I have made a few kernel upgrades since then. ;-) )
oooooo, I find this very hard to belive (you know I am a beginer and you just become a idol).
<geek reminicience mode on:> Starting with Linux 0.95 was not a feat of high magic. Many years ago I found it on BBSs in suburban Washington DC. I ran it on a 386sx-16 with 4 megs of RAM, it took a couple of hours to recompile the kernel using GNU C 1.40 and I couldn't run X. It wasn't the SuSE distro :-), but that was when there was a choice of downloading Manchester, SLS, or "do-it-yourself." Mine was "do it yourself". The installation wasn't tough, but that was because I didn't have to worry about special video cards, fancy mice, X windows (though X was available), graphical printers, or TCP/IP (I used xc as a terminal dial-up program.) Before I moved out of the DC area, and thus out of range of bullitin boards on the Internet at that time (tho I was still on FidoNet, which had internet email, and operated a Fido netted BBS for a while), I had upgraded to 0.99 and was hearing rumors of a company called Slackware which offered Linux on floppies, and some wierd named distro with a name that begins with a Y that offered the first Linux CD. Soon after I lived in a college town and had a university library card and access to their computer labs. I thought that gopher would take over; www didn't have a chance because it looked so bad on a tty compared to gopher and there were so many more gopher sites than web sites. :-) <geek reminiscence mode off:>