Re[2]: [Nolug] server distro considerations

Dude, I so remember that! I was in high school with a friend of mine,
Jason, and he was the one with the 486. So we bought Slackware,
installed it via a million floppies, and spend several days figuring
out how to manually configure XFree86. Ah, memories.. ;-)

---
Puryear Information Technology, LLC
Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
http://www.puryear-it.com
Author:
  "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
  "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century"
Download your free copies:
  http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm
Saturday, January 13, 2007, 3:35:15 AM, you 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
> ___________________
> Nolug mailing list
> nolug@nolug.org
___________________
Nolug mailing list
nolug@nolug.org