I'm a relative johny-come-lately - 1996.
I was completely ignorant when I found the need to set up a web presence
via a 36K dial-up! For 6 months an "expert" friend tried to get NT4 to
run basic web server, mail server, dns functionality. I was finally
told by Microsoft themselves that it wasn't possible without a very
expensive Cisco router. I recall that the DNS never worked at all. It
cost me $1200 for NT4, which I never used in production. I've still got
the books - does anyone want them???
Somebody suggested I contact a chinese dude in Chatswood who ran a small
ISP. I can't recall his name unfortunately. He gave me a list of 486
hardware to buy and told me that if I dropped it off at his business he
would return it to me installed and running, which he did in two days. I
didn't know at the time, but I ended up with Slackware, which worked
perfectly. I learnt enough to do basic maintenance before eventually
moving on to Redhat 5. I never did have to buy that router :)
I found it hard to believe that this strange Slackware stuff could do
what Microsoft singularly failed to do.
David
On 07/04/13 01:50, Rick Welykochy wrote:
Nick Andrew wrote:
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:46:39PM +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
Well today pretty much marks 20 years since I've used Linux at home.
You're an early adopter :-)
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