Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux
by rahimnathwani on Monday July 16, 2018 @09:14PM
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The floppy method failed me because I had bought 50 unbranded floppies at what I thought was a bargain price. But it turned out they weren't reliable at high density.
Switching to a different brand meant my only remaining problems were:
- the time it took to install by switching out all those floppies
- having to wait overnight for a kernel recompile whenever I added new hardware (not that often, but the memory is strong because those were the exact times I didn't want to have to wait)
- not really knowing why I wanted to use Linux, apart from thinking it would be cool to have a web server running in my room (this was back in 1994)
Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux
by johnnycarcin on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:06AM
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Kernel compile times! I remember kicking off a compile before I went to bed and then checking it the next morning before school to see what the result was. Good times for sure.
Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux
by filmgirlcw on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:24PM
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Haha, I had a similar download experience. I had to track someone down who had a CD-R drive (pretty sure it was the guy that introduced to me to Slackware) to get it running because the floppy method failed me!
Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux
by johnnycarcin on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:09AM
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Thank god for that new amazing technology ;)
Nice to see another Linux Microsoftie on here as well!
Re:Happy 25th Anniversary Slackware Linux
by filmgirlcw on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @04:09AM
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There are dozens of us! Dozens! https://m.imgur.com/r/starwarsminiatures/R1fdEt3
"All the “legit” people were using Linux so I spent a week downloading the different packages for a Slackware install and put them all on 3.5” floppies only to have the install fail. I should mention that up until this point I had basically zero Linux experience. Luckily for me there was Cheap Bytes which was a site that would burn everything to a CD and mail it to you for a small fee. A few weeks later that old 133Mhz Windows 95 computer was a lean and mean Linux box. I can still remember the panic when I saw that “darkstar login” prompt come up. What the hell had I done? As I said earlier, I was all in."