Mi primera distribucion de Linux. Al principio mas perdido que el barco del arroz. Fue mi primer encuentro con linux, para ver drivers que me comunicaran por un puerto serie de aquella epoca...luego hasta nuestros dias..
The first Linux I ever used, I got it on a big pile of floppies from the guy who'd been providing a UUCP usenet feed from his SCO box to the BBS I was Sysop of at the time. If installing from floppies wasn't slow enough the first thing you did after install was compile a kernel to match your hardware which took days on the 386 I was using (and that kernel was still version 0.98 iirc).
Also one of the first distros I used around my 17, back in 2012. It pushed me to understand better the core principles of GNU/Linux, OS and software development. It also kept me away from trying to do LFS as I was already overwhelmed by both the robustness and complexity of Slackware. That was fair enough to me, tho I still tried to run OpenBSD as a laptop OS and Debian without a graphical interface. Nice trainings and funny experiences to browse the web with Links or watch videos with cvlc ^^
My First Distro! First year of college in 1994, fancy new Pentium tower in my dorm room.
This one dude who rocked a NEXTcube at home insisted I should learn this UNIX stuff, and that there was a UNIX-y thing I could run on my PC, as an alternative to Windows 3.11 + Winsock.
Stack of floppies and an all-nighter later: The smiling face of Bob beamed down upon me and said “you may seek Slack, and here you shall find it - but first you need to reverse-engineer this network card driver so it uses a different IRQ”
my first linux, started with v 1.2.3 on 3(?) diskettes. Compiled kernel, bought a graphics card so X Windows ran smoothly … those were the days. Happy birthday, Slackware 🍾
I'm experiencing your toot through the magic of Slackware 15.
My first Linux was SuSE 5.3 in Sep 1998. RPM was painful, and I learned to despise dependency checking, so I switched the distro that did not have it: Slackware! I think my first version was 3.9. I learned so much on Slack. It better matched the resources I had for learning Linux, books like Essential System Administration.
After 14.1, I switched to Debian (because work), but I'm back because it doesn't use systemd.
Really need to get back to it. My experience was using it as a 16 year old one summer and feeling like it was one of the more cohesive dwsktop experiences I've had.
Tino Echaniz
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Fue mi primer encuentro con linux, para ver drivers que me comunicaran por un puerto serie de aquella epoca...luego hasta nuestros dias..
Joooo, ya han pasado 30 años !!!
Unix Herder
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This one dude who rocked a NEXTcube at home insisted I should learn this UNIX stuff, and that there was a UNIX-y thing I could run on my PC, as an alternative to Windows 3.11 + Winsock.
Stack of floppies and an all-nighter later: The smiling face of Bob beamed down upon me and said “you may seek Slack, and here you shall find it - but first you need to reverse-engineer this network card driver so it uses a different IRQ”
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My first Linux was SuSE 5.3 in Sep 1998. RPM was painful, and I learned to despise dependency checking, so I switched the distro that did not have it: Slackware! I think my first version was 3.9. I learned so much on Slack. It better matched the resources I had for learning Linux, books like Essential System Administration.
After 14.1, I switched to Debian (because work), but I'm back because it doesn't use systemd.
April :verified8:
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