Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace (fwd)

[Peter]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Stewart C. Russell wrote:

> Peter wrote:
>> 
>> Actually my first first Linux experience was with Lasermoon Linux (from UK), 
>> as demo live disk on a PC Windows (?) magazine cover disk.
> 
> It was probably Personal Computer World magazine, the UK equivalent of Byte. 
> I remember them being quite friendly with Lasermoon.
> 
> ISTR being able to buy the full Linux manpage set, laser-printed and 
> ringbound from Lasermoon. They also did their own highly proprietary distro 
> (Linux-FT) that was the first to have POSIX certification.
> 
> Sadly, their domain now points to a laser eye surgery splog.

Ok, I found the cd. It has a crack starting at the center hole so I'm afraid to 
mount it in a 52x drive. I'll try to run it some other day from a slow drive 
and get some screenshots.

It was May 1996 PC Windows, and it was Linux FT 1.1 as you said.

Peter
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