Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:10:19AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:55:55PM -0500, billt-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
> > Ah the memories. I ran into linux on a usenet as well. The year was spring of 1992 and I spent a few months reading about it in amongst the minix newsgroups instead of doing my thesis. I then graduated from university and promptly forgot about it as I had no access to the internet. 
> > 
> > A friend of mine from university mentioned that he had grabbed a walnut creek cd with linux on it. I handed him 40 floppies the next day and aquired slackware and a set of printed how-tos a week later. It took all day Sunday to install on a 386 SX 16 MHz machine with 4 M of memory. I even got X up and running! My first project was to recompile the kernel. Kernel vs 0.93.1 was what came with it, but on two of the floppies was source for 1.0.9. Compiling that kernel took four days. 
> > 
> > Anyone remember using /dev/fd0 as swap space?
> 
> No, I was using 80M on a 213M drive for the first install.  Lots of room
> for swap, not that it needed it.  The machine was a 486DX50 with 8M of
> ram.  And the kernel was 0.99something.  Whatever SLS 1.03 had.
> 

That was a sweet machine back then.

I checked, my memory is failing me. The kernel was 0.99.3 on slackware distro at the time, and it came with source for 1.0.9

Since Slakware was SLS with the propreitary stuff ripped out and replaced, I'd guess you started with almost the same distro.

Bill
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