The early days of Linux

Heh... Yes, this was a nice read. But I'm going to add something. I wasn't involved in free software, programming or anything back then. Sure, I bought Dr Dobbs every month, but my major was Comparative and Historical Linguistics of the Sino-Tibetan languages.

But got together with my wife (and now I'm, her wife, all of thirty years later) and we got a stack of SLS floppies from our neighbour in the converted-to-appartments-convent-school appartment where we lived, back then (every school room was converted into a living/kitching + bedroom + bathroom).

He gave my wife those 3.5" disks because she liked nethack, and knew I was being re-schooled into an Oracle 4GL programmer, at the time. Our first child was coming up...

We managed to boot up and install Linux back then in 1993, and never looked back. Well, I'm looking back now, but whatevs. Linux Journal. gui toolkits, windowmaker, fvwm, wordperfect for Unix, there's been so much!