Just for a bit of fun (since it's Friday) - what was your very
first
exposure to Linux and what was your first distribution that you
ever
installed (and can you remember the kernel version?!).
Like everyone else it seems, I started using Linux on my start in 1995 at Uni. When I brought the book "Linux Universe" after hearing all about it in the press. The book is still on my bookshelf to this day.
It was based around Slackware and the 1.2.13 kernel, and I was trying to install this on a 486SX-25 with 8Mb RAM, a single 210Mb HDD and one of those Creative propreitary CD drives attached to the soundblaster card. I distinctly remember spending many days trying to install it using the "sbpcd" driver, aswell as configuring X to work with a 1Mb Cirrus VESA graphics card. Neither worked particularly well, until I came across Debian 1.3.1 and the 2.0 kernel and I was hooked.
The bogomips I as I remember was only at 80 or so and I brought numerous upgrades just to increase this figure!!
Sad old days. Hip hip...
David.
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