10 May
2013
10 May
'13
6 p.m.
On Fri, 11 May 2013, Jonathan Katz wrote:
This is gonna show how young I am...but my first experience with Linux was
Ubuntu on an Athlon Thunderbird. (pre-6.06). I've gained quite a bit of
knowledge since then.
Can't recall my first UNIX experience proper...but it was likely FreeBSD.
That's an upgrade from the Windows ME it originally had. ;)
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On 10/05/2013 22:24, Josh Dersch wrote:
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
My first Linux at home box was installing SLS Linux on a 386 DX/40 with 2M or 4M of RAM.
It ran X and other stuff to be usable, but this was 1994-1995. I had no clue what I was
doing but enough of a clue to use it and maybe not realize how painfully slow it was
compared with a true workstation of the time.