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My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 14, 2006 16:00 UTC (Sat) by tjc (subscriber, #137)In reply to: My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com) by Ribbit
Parent article: My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
What other ancient, long-forgotten distros did people get started on?Whatever was on those "infomagic" CDs. Someone told me they thought it might have been SLS, but this is inconclusive.
BTW, does anyone remember what Caldera was originally based on? There used to be copyright notices for some German company in some of the files in Lisa.
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My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 14, 2006 17:01 UTC (Sat) by Erich_J_Ritzmann (subscriber, #39670) [Link]
Caldera, I also have OpenLinux Base 1.1 CD's kicking around. They were Red Hat based.Supposedly, they had several value adds, like better NW integration and came with StarOffice (a
german company at the time). LISA was the "Linux Installation and System Administration" tool.
They called themselves the user friendly Linux, but when my non-techie friend tried it out it was
hanging just as often as Windoze.
The only other time I managed to hang Linux was when I was playing around with the Adaptec
17xx EISA SCSI controller driver. The first version I had to hack to get it to work, and in the
process needed to use the hardware reset -- the only time I thanked Bill Gates for making sure
the reset was on the front of the computer ;-)
My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 14, 2006 17:15 UTC (Sat) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]
That's a real blast from the past. I actually started with SLS back in 1993. Back then, installing linux was a labor and skill intensive affair. This cool new distro called Slackware came out after that, and by December I was a slacker and stayed with Bob Dobbs for several years. In those pre-netscape days, the internet was all about email, usenet, telnet and ftp. Then this interweb thing started, and we all had this "mosaic" web browser - and other browsers, like arena, grail, amaya, chimera...
Speaking of ftp, does anyone remember archie?
There were other distros - yggdrasil, MCC, TAMU... I finally started using this rehat thing, with their red baron web browser, but I also got the periodic slackware CDs from infomagic. Caldera came out, based on redhat, but they later diverged. They were an interesting distro - I realy liked the tetris game in the installer.
The years went by. I tried debian, turbolinux, mandrake, but continued to run mainly redhat. redhat split, I ran fedora for a while, then jumped ship to suse in 2004, and here we are nearing the end of 2006. How time flies.
My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 14, 2006 19:04 UTC (Sat) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
Achie? Yes... And gopher. I've got this little yellow Falk Plan bookexplaining how to use gopher from the unix command line. After all, Falk
publishes roadmaps, so it was bound to publish a map to the Digital
Highway.
My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 15, 2006 22:40 UTC (Sun) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
Achie? Yes... And gopher.Gopher lives on... as webmail. ;-)
My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
Posted Oct 16, 2006 19:33 UTC (Mon) by papik (guest, #15175) [Link]
I have a 5-CD Set of InfoMagic of nov 1995. I see Slackware, RedHat endDebian and the mirrors of sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu.