10 Jun
2013
10 Jun
'13
9:31 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Ian King <IanK at
vulcan.com> wrote:
I have the official Walnut Creek 2-disc set for Slackware 2.3 (July 1995)
and 4-disc set for Slackware 96 (August 1996) that I can image and make
available if needed. I don't have the bandwidth to keep them online for
/everyone/ to download, but I can make them available to whoever wants to
mirror them for others. The 2.3 set has a 1.2.8 kernel and 96 has a 2.0.0
kernel. Slackware 96 ran just fine on any 386 with 4MB of memory and would
install on a very small ~25MB or so hard drive without gcc, X, etc. If I
had the chance to obtain any of the other older versions I'd make those
available as well, but they don't seem to turn up all that often now.
On 6/8/13 7:23 AM, "Mr Ian Primus"
<ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
My first Linux machine was a 386SX, and I ran X on it... FVWM... ...
two or three terminal windows, a clock and xeyes running...
I think that 386SX may have been a 4MB machine. Slow, but it got
there.
Similar to my early Linux experience, but I had a 386DX/40 w/4MB, so not
as slow, but kernel builds still took a while (and I had an AHA1540, so
unless i wanted the largest pre-built kernel, I had to make my own to
trim out all the stuff I _didn't_ need). Back those days, I ran
Slackware, but I couldn't tell you what distro versions (but I remember
the kernel versions - 0.40 was the first I remember trying, then because
of the SCSI issue, I stepped back for a bit and really dove in around
0.95).