A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution

Re:A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution by BorisMelnik on Friday May 22, 2015 @11:02PM (#9591844)

thank you so much for sharing your experience. I am about 6 years younger than you but followed pretty much the same path. I also ran Linux when the kernel was pre .2 etc (Redhat 1.0 was the first commercially linux product I remember.) I think I remember getting Redhat Linux on 10 floppy disks.

I was lucky enough to live in a geographic area where there were a few universities, and my father had access that allowed me accounts on several Unix workstations.

Again thanks for sharing this, this was a really nice read.

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Re:A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution by PopeOfNope on Saturday May 23, 2015 @10:04AM (#9592940)

I think I'm a little younger than you as well, but my first unix was Red Hat Linux 7. It came on a CD and was so buggy[0] I gave up on it after 6 months. I wouldn't touch another unix until my sophomore year at college, when a roommate convinced me to try Gentoo. That worked for two years before I got fed up with it (I wiped out my /etc one time too many). Then I bought a TiBook from same said roommate and haven't looked back since.

[0]: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/00/10/02/2046212/red-hat-lin...

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Re:A Repository with 44 Years of Unix Evolution by BorisMelnik on Saturday May 23, 2015 @02:21PM (#9593799)

Wow yes, I think with Redhat 7 you still had to make your own kernel source code, which would generally take the better part of an afternoon. Wow great slashdot reference!

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