On 19 Apr 22:43, John Woodard wrote:
2009/4/19 Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk:
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:36:17PM +0100, James Freer wrote:
I'm intending to go. Walsham to Syleham and can pick up anyone local.
Which Walsham?
I've got a pentium 2, 300khz think that is the right age which you're welcome to use or even borrow beforehand to set up.
Sounds about perfect!
Be interesting to compare how ten years has advanced linux. Imagine quite a number will be on ubuntu 9.04.
I'm thinking of grabbing a copy of Redhat 6.0 to install as I recall (but could be wrong) that there were a few copies being handed out at the first meeting as it had been out for about a week.
iirc we were on RedHat 5.1 and copies of Suse 5.0 were being shared. I remember my linux box had RH5.0 and I did an upgrade to 5.1 from a magazine covermount between the 1st and 2nd meetings. I don't think I upgraded to 6.0 until I scrounged a disc at the 3rd meeting at the UEA. P2s were the processor common at the time, my Linux box had an AMD K6-2 550Mhz with 64Mb PC66 ram iirc.
As I remember it, it was about the same time as CivCTP was released for Linux too - and I seem to remember a few "trial" CDs being handed out... I seem to remember also having Quake II running on my K6 2 450 at the time, think I even had a massive 256M of memory at that time! Was also the only meet where my little brother came with me... he spent most of it playing on my little linux box :)
Did we not also have some people with wearables at that meeting, all those years ago? I think at that point I had started to run SuSE, my Debian install happened all of 4 months later when I got to UEA - only took another year before I dropped sendmail and moved to exim... then the world was a good place, and I've not looked back since :)
Cheers,