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SubjectRe: [LIGHTYEARS OFFTOPIC] Hello Chinese student
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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