Linux still largely invisible in the marketplace

[Kevin Cozens]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Anyone else here cut their teeth on Yggdrasil?

I did. Some coworkers told me about Linux. I had a little exposure to unix 
since the company I was working had some Sun OS machines. I picked up a copy 
of Yggdrasil Plug-and-Play Linux Fall 1994 Revision C from the UofT bookstore 
around November of '94. It was a slim book with a boot floppy and a CD in the 
back and had kernel 1.1.47 on it.

In March of 1995 I upgraded my machine from a '386 to a '486. This new machine 
used a SCSI hard drive with an Adaptec 2940 controller. Via Usenet I found a 
place hosted on a navy.mil server that had experimental drivers for the 2940 
controller and a 1.2 Linux kernel. I learned very early on how to patch a 
Linux kernel.

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Kevin.

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