Linux OS

Doc Shipley doc at mdrconsult.com
Sun Oct 17 22:59:32 CDT 2004


Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> Jules Richardson wrote:
>>
>>> Linux was around over ten years ago
>>> now, so it is sort-of on topic :)
>>
>>
>> Only if you want to talk about Debian 0.91, Slackware 1.1.2 or the new 
>> beta release of SuSE Linux.
> 
> 
> You left out a few, such as the MCM release, and SLS release (I ran SLS 
> from when it started in '92 or '93 till '96).  Then there was Yggdrasil 
> (first CD based distro starting in '93), as well as several other floppy 
> based distro's, and of course the classic "Boot/Root" floppies.  My 
> first few Linux installs were done using the "Boot/Root" floppies 
> (starting in January 1992), and then adding everything else.

   I'd love to have a copy of SLS.  I ran Slackware v3.something as my 
first Linux in '95, but I used SLS for a while in there when I was 
learning the difference between a distribution and an OS.

   I have an original Yggdrasil CD, boot floppy, and manual around here 
somewhere.


	Doc



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