11 May
2013
11 May
'13
4:11 p.m.
* On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:09:38AM +0100, Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
On 10/05/2013 22:24, Josh Dersch wrote:
Hey, back in the early days that's all we had!
My first Linux experience was SLS Linux 0.98, which I installed in
December 1992 on a 486/33. The computer was brand new, with a whopping
8MB of RAM and a 210MB hard drive (I splurged for the bigger drive
because I knew I was going to be dual booting Linux and MS-DOS).
At the time, it really was fast. It felt snappy. Watching a kernel
compile on that sucker was impressive, especially compared to a friend's
386/20!
I got X11 running with the Tseng Labs ET4000 driver. It was _almost_
stable enough to compile a kernel while running X11... almost.
-Seth
P.S.: That same computer served me very well right up until 1999, by which
time it had been demoted to a single-purpose mailing list server running
FreeBSD.
How about Linux on a Mac SE/30. If I recall, it
took about 18 hours to
compile the kernel.
A friend and I did once install slackware on a slow 486 laptop. I had
to upgrade the memory to 4MB (or maybe it was 6MB), and eventually found
a big 120MB hard drive for it, so we tried installing X. The comment at
the time was that "running" was a bit of an exaggeration for what it
did, but Netscape 3 did display a page in under 5 minutes.