Re: [Nolug] server distro considerations

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On 1/13/07, Shannon Roddy <sroddy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/13/07, Lawrence Toal <let02do@cox.net> wrote:
>
> > But Slack has indeed
> > been an acquired taste for me. I don't suggest it for anyone not already
> > interested for some reason The reasons are usually similar to the list
> you
> > gave though :-).
> >
>
> I've always liked Slack.
>
> Once upon a time, around '95 or so when I started with Linux, Slack
> was about the only serious linux distribution. For those that don't
> remember those days with Linux, I had to go buy a 50 pack of floppies
> and spend about 4 days downloading on a 9600 baud modem to install it
> on a 486 25 mhz system only to find that the 10th or so floppy was
> bad. I had already wiped the system, so no useable OS. Install
> another OS, re-download floppy number 10, restart installation.
> Floppy #13 bad, repeat. After a couple of weeks, it was pure heaven.
> :-) Then I had to learn this fandangled fancy *nix stuff. Those were
> the days, but I wouldn't wanna go back.
>
> A coworker of mine talks about his days on a PDP-11 at MIT. I
> *really* wouldn't want to go back to those days.
>
> -Shannon
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