My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)

My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 16, 2006 17:04 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com) by sholdowa
Parent article: My first 10 years with Linux (Linux.com)

I was a (junior) system administrator for Unix systems in 1985, so I'm not far behind you. But I don't think that qualifies as Linux history. I started with Linux in October of 1995 with a copy of Slackware which came on a CD with a web server book--and ran it on what I think is the absolute minimum one could have run i386 Linux on--a 16MHz 386sx, retrieved from my employer's attic, where it had been retired some months before, along with a new CDROM drive, Buslogic SCSI controller and 1G external SCSI disk. It had a whopping 8M of RAM (half of which I stole from another equally ancient machine.) Let me assure you, it took a LONG time to compile a kernel on that thing, and exercised the swap partition quite nicely. :-) I think that Slackware version came with kernel version 1.2.13, IIRC. But that machine ran as a UUCP and POP3 server (along with Mac filesharing), for several years, until something finally decided to fail on the motherboard. (I had left by then, and heard about its failure secondhand.)

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