For me it was 1993 using Slackware with a .91 kernel. A bazillion
floppies (or maybe 35) as Brad said. Had to customize/rebuild the kernel
a lot. Making uucp work was my first goal as I recall. This was on a
40MHz AMD 386. Printing was an additional adventure, and sound another
one. I eventually learned to go with the flow so when it came time to
use ethernet I simply bought one of the blessed cards and followed
somebody's cookbook and so that was mercifully straight forward.
But at the time at work I had hardware coming out of my ears. My main
(Encore) machine had four 50Mhz Motorola 88110 processors running BSD
Unix. So, much like Lars (fantastic dry humor) put it, I mostly used the
home Linux system to access usenet with uucp. :-)
Pete
On 4/15/23 01:32, Robert Mackie wrote:
Wow, that's cool to read. When did folks on this list first use
Linux? Just kind of curious since this is the kind of crowd that might
have been early adopters.
Rob.
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 7:06 PM Peter Soper via TriEmbed
<triembed@triembed.org> wrote:
The early days of Linux -
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/928581/841b747332791ac4/
Pete
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