On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tom Rauschenbach wrote:
I'm fantasizing about a distro that comes with a bootable floppy to
install from and a set of CDs with tar.gz images of source packages so
that you could install a truely generic "GNU/Linux"
Well, the biggest problem with the system you describe
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, "Kevin D. Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pedantic
IIRC, MCC and SLS are older. I don't even recall Slackware being
available back when I installed Linux.
/pedantic
I believe there was an implicit "oldest living" floating around in
that remark (which I think is
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While Slackware is certainly no longer the largest distribution, it is
certainly the oldest
pedantic
IIRC, MCC and SLS are older. I don't even recall Slackware being
available back when I installed Linux.
Does Yggdrasil count? ;-)
Derek Martin wrote:
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While Slackware is certainly no longer the largest distribution, it is
certainly the oldest
pedantic
IIRC, MCC and SLS are older. I don't even recall
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yup, Patrick SomebodyOrOther (Volkerding?) introduced Slackware at least a
year after I first installed the SLS distribution from a handful of 5.24"
floppies.
Wow, you must *real* old. I never had any five-point-two-*four*-inch floppy
disks. Did
now trying to get apt-get
to load sources so I can re-build a kernel and get what I want. I went to the
LSB web page to see what distro I could use that 1) MADE SENSE and 2) wasn't
RedHat since RH seems to have adopted MS style marketing strategies. I was
surprised to see that Debian is an
