Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:21:30 +0100 (MET) | From | Paul Wouters <> | Subject | Re: [LIGHTYEARS OFFTOPIC] Hello Chinese student |
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Riccardo Facchetti wrote:
> > My first installed distribution was SLS (anybody remember?) > > with kernel 0.99.12... > > > > Then came Slackware and after Redhat, Debian, Suse, etc. but > > I never had that SLS excitement again :-( > > > > I wonder what happened with those guys...
Still there :) I still have my SLS T-shirt "Friends don't let friends use DOS". They enver told me the colour before shipping though, and it's horribly yellow..... I still have a very new (post sls 1.3) linux 1.0 boot/root floppy around :) I am sentimental about that one. It convinced my PC store that their external 486DLC co-pro was bad, even though Autocad worked fine :)
> Then I have downloaded all the SLS floppy and installed at home (I have > kept busy 6 of that 386 to do the ftp with NCSA software downloading the > floppies from the 835, used as temporary storage for all the stuff, > directly into drive A: just to be a bit faster ... hehe 3 for formatting > and verifying with hd-copy, just to be sure, and 3 for downloading).
Ahhh it all comes back now. When base+networking+Xwindows was less then Emacs :)
> My first installation was SLS too with 0.99.12 kernel on my 486/33 w/8 > MB of ram and 250 MB of ide disk. Since then I have never re-installed it.
Ahh no. 60MB tape drive on our university. They hated us :) But I did get to learn how the heck to access tape drivers using pipes and rsh :) They used to be Gods there.... Now you are just one of us :)
> Now I have a dual P200 with mixed IDE/SCSI and I have upgraded the system > by hands following all the steps jump-table->ELF->LIBC6 and now I have a > somewhat mixed system (still some executables in the old format).
Ah no. borg.hacktic.nl's disk crashed long ago (Seagate :) and i upgraded to the then famous slackware distr. now I am mostly running redhatlike things.
And then to think i only wanted a BBS to use a MUD instead of their lame chat software, on their digiboard. The BBS had died years before the digiboard got supported :) Where did I go wrong Alan ? :)
Paul
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