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My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)Posted Oct 14, 2006 17:15 UTC (Sat) by einstein (subscriber, #2052)In reply to: My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com) by tjc Parent article: My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)
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.
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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. ;-)
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