On 20/4/21 4:14 am, Philip Webb wrote: > 210419 Roy Bamford wrote: >> Its my 18th anniversary of installing Gentoo. > You beat me by 6 mth . I had recently built my 2nd machine > & had been using Mandrake in the 1st, but they were slow with their release. > I tried Suse + Slackware, but couldn't get them set up properly, > so I thought I might as well try that new thing people were talking about. > I followed the install instructions faithfully, booted > & found myself with a working version of Gentoo ! I've never looked back. > >> A number of coincidences gave rise to my original liveCD turning up >> when I was searching for bits to get an old system to boot >> just one more time to get some forgotten data off its hard drives. >> I just had to try it out. > I still have the original CDs for Mandrake from 2000, my 1st Linux, > but I've never tried installing them again anywhere. >
I am a little earlier with gentoo - but unfortunately I don't have any media/machines from that era - great project! I started with Redhat 4.0 sometime in the late 90's. BillK On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 19:16, gentoo-user-requ...@gentoo.org wrote: > gentoo-user -- confirmation of subscription -- request 939282 > > We have received a request from
