On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 15:57, Michael Viron wrote: > Just a thought, but keep in mind how much easier things have become. I'm > not sure how many "old-timers" are on the list, but it used to be that in > order to do just about anything, you had to compile it yourself.
Slackware's FIRST release. Downloaded from the Walnut-Creek site (ftp.cdrom.com). Took a week to get the bloody thing up and running, and STILL without networking via 8mb ISA Lantastic card. Barely even had anything other than a shell. The "hot stuff" was to telnet via com port to the linux box via serial port FROM the BBS server and make use of bash scripting for menus and navigation. Ooooooooo....hot stuff that! OpenWindows was the XWindows default. (Still works nicely on MDK 9.1, too...hehehehhehe). When FvWM hit, THAT was hot stuff. Took ages to figure out how to add programs to the menus. OpenLook was easier because the text files for the menus sat in /usr/openwin/include - so it was really nicer to have running even though FvWM looked nicer. Sitting through an OS/2 installation was preferable to doing the Slackware installation, and took less time (believe THAT!). RH's first installation in 1994 wasn't much better than Slackware's - and I thought RH would die quickly and Slackware would rule. WRONG. Wow, that brings back memories...or is it mammories? -- Sun Jun 8 16:00:01 EST 2003 16:00:01 up 1 day, 1:51, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.15, 0.11 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * A filter set contains all imaginable wavelengths and widths- except the one combination you need -- Ralf's Laws of Observational Astronomy n6
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