Messages in this thread | | | From | Steffen Grunewald <> | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Hello Chinese student | Date | Wed, 11 Nov 1998 09:25:17 +0100 (MET) |
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Manuel J. Galan wrote: |> |> My first installed distribution was SLS (anybody remember?) |> with kernel 0.99.12...
May I top that with MCC Interim Release (0.96, I guess) ? The good ol' times of Ross Biro's NET-1, no X, no init.d, nearly everything had to be configured by hand (in only a spoonful of files, though)...
Then SLS appeared (I'm still preserving the old install docs for the days my kids will be asking me for them :), but remained unmaintained at some stage... Slackware took over - and then came RedHat (veni, vidi, vici...) must have been 3.0.3 (got aware of them when their Mother's Day release hit the FTP servers). Since I'm from Germany and using ISDN, I switched over to SuSE when RH glitched into beta glibc (with 5.0) |> |> Then came Slackware and after Redhat, Debian, Suse, etc. but |> I never had that SLS excitement again :-(
I'm still excited, but the excitement isn't focused that much.
|> |> I wonder what happened with those guys...
Let's try to collect a "hall of fame of linux hackers of the first and second days" !
I'd contribute (the first ones who come to mind, besides Linus of course):
Ross Biro - for the first network implementation (still remember his account bir7) Orest Zborowski (Zorst) - for first patches to run X Fred van Kempen - took over on NET-2 development, but silently disappeared, Alan Cox then stepped forward with Net-2Debugged which later turned into Net-2E and current NET-3 Thomas Roell - who initiated what is now XFree86 (X386 at that time) Andrew Tanenbaum :-) - for his flameful discussion with Linus whether there'd be need for just another OS
... and many many others (don't be offended)
Steffen -- Steffen Grunewald = steffen(at)gfz-potsdam.de = fax +49-331-288-1266 My opinions are mine. You can rent them. Just ask me for prices :-) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" - Pablo Picasso
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