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Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by jmclnx » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 7:53 PM UTC

hef19898 wrote: post #9

nobleach wrote: post #5

I recall being in a B. Dalton Bookstore in the mid-90's. I picked up a book that had "Linux" on the cover. In the cover it had a floppy disk or two. Something felt very wrong to me. You can't give away an entire operation system! Perhaps this was just some "free for educational purposes" thing? I went home and fired up WebCrawler on AOL and came across Yggdrasil. I had experienced Unix on an SGI system. And I was ver…

I remember discussions back the day between Linux and Windows proponents. I was clearly in the Windows camp, seeing Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers. That changed, now that Linux is probably the last OS I can run without a cloud account easily. Heck, I'd even pay for it! Back the day I was a gamer, the main reason why Linux never really was an option. Later for work, it was Windows a…

I remember this :)

I was using Coherent at the time, and Linux people was posting in comp.os.coherent how good Linux was. When MWC folded people from MWC suggested moving to a BSD because at least the BSD people did not troll the group.

I ended up with Slackware because the PC I had at the time was too lite for a BSD.

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by jmclnx » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 7:56 PM UTC

wolfi1 wrote: post #18

hef19898 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember discussions back the day between Linux and Windows proponents. I was clearly in the Windows camp, seeing Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers. That changed, now that Linux is probably the last OS I can run without a cloud account easily. Heck, I'd even pay for it! Back the day I was a gamer, the main reason why Linux never really was an option. Later for work, it was Windows a…

I never got used to Excel, most of the spreadsheet things Excel is used for can be achieved by awk

I do not know why you got down voted for this.

But same here, I never used Excel (and do not now) because the tools in UNIX type OSs are fine.

So I guess I will be joining you in the basement :)

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by jmclnx » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 8:01 PM UTC

codezero wrote: post #68

I think I still have my Slackware 1.0 CD in a closet back at home from around 1993/94. I went on to work at Red Hat in 1999, those were fun times for Linux :)

If it is really 1.0, you should post it in Linux Questions

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/

people there have been looking for a 1.0 set. I think the earliest one found so far was 1.01

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by kaladin-jasnah » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 8:18 PM UTC

minitoar wrote: post #78

Bit off topic, but Lunduke is a racism denier. It's hard for me take anything he says seriously when he just completely denies the existence of systemic racism.

You might be right (I don't really know for sure), but this is an ad hominem fallacy, which is probably why it's getting downvoted.

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by int_19h » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 8:27 PM UTC

hef19898 wrote: post #9

nobleach wrote: post #5

I recall being in a B. Dalton Bookstore in the mid-90's. I picked up a book that had "Linux" on the cover. In the cover it had a floppy disk or two. Something felt very wrong to me. You can't give away an entire operation system! Perhaps this was just some "free for educational purposes" thing? I went home and fired up WebCrawler on AOL and came across Yggdrasil. I had experienced Unix on an SGI system. And I was ver…

I remember discussions back the day between Linux and Windows proponents. I was clearly in the Windows camp, seeing Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers. That changed, now that Linux is probably the last OS I can run without a cloud account easily. Heck, I'd even pay for it! Back the day I was a gamer, the main reason why Linux never really was an option. Later for work, it was Windows a…

Gaming is still a major sticking point when it comes to Windows alternatives. But for Linux specifically, another one is web streaming: some popular services will outright refuse to stream on Linux, presumably due to DRM concerns.

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by monocasa » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 8:37 PM UTC

tomrod wrote: post #15

hef19898 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember discussions back the day between Linux and Windows proponents. I was clearly in the Windows camp, seeing Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers. That changed, now that Linux is probably the last OS I can run without a cloud account easily. Heck, I'd even pay for it! Back the day I was a gamer, the main reason why Linux never really was an option. Later for work, it was Windows a…

MS really needs to release a Linux Excel.

They're basically trying to with Office 365. The OS is a commodity, so move everything into the browser. Then you can sell to the shops that are running Chromebooks, and support Mac without a separate team.

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by codezero » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC

jmclnx wrote: post #83

codezero wrote: post #68

I think I still have my Slackware 1.0 CD in a closet back at home from around 1993/94. I went on to work at Red Hat in 1999, those were fun times for Linux :)

If it is really 1.0, you should post it in Linux Questions http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ people there have been looking for a 1.0 set. I think the earliest one found so far was 1.01

If it's rare, I doubt it's 1.0 then, but I'll check :)

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by minitoar » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 8:52 PM UTC

kaladin-jasnah wrote: post #84

minitoar wrote: post #78

Bit off topic, but Lunduke is a racism denier. It's hard for me take anything he says seriously when he just completely denies the existence of systemic racism.

You might be right (I don't really know for sure), but this is an ad hominem fallacy, which is probably why it's getting downvoted.

I disagree it's an ad hominem fallacy. I'm judging him on his opinions and what he writes. I'm not surprised about the downvotes.

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by EvanAnderson » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 9:11 PM UTC

icedchai wrote: post #53

EvanAnderson wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was running either a Slackware or SLS distro when I did the a.out to ELF transition. I remember the libc migration occurring but I don't recall the details. It amazes me that I pulled it off given how little I understood about how the system actually worked. My experience, up to that point, was with MS-DOS and being a user on a Xenix system (but not a sysadmin). I was really, really excited to have a Unix-like OS a…

I remember doing that, as well. I had Slackware running with some custom patches. I had to upgrade the kernel, libc, ld.so, and a bunch of other stuff. For a while, I had a system that ran both a.out and ELF binaries. This was back in 1996 or so?

I think '96. I remember a friend, who I only ever met face-to-face at Defcon 4, telling me that he didn't think I could pull off the migration and that I should just reload the system. That pins it at '96.

Re: The Linux Distributions of 1992

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Post by deaddodo » Fri, Sep 17, 2021, 9:18 PM UTC

int_19h wrote: post #85

hef19898 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember discussions back the day between Linux and Windows proponents. I was clearly in the Windows camp, seeing Linux fans as, well, bizarre sometimes arrogant pseudo programmers. That changed, now that Linux is probably the last OS I can run without a cloud account easily. Heck, I'd even pay for it! Back the day I was a gamer, the main reason why Linux never really was an option. Later for work, it was Windows a…

Gaming is still a major sticking point when it comes to Windows alternatives. But for Linux specifically, another one is web streaming: some popular services will outright refuse to stream on Linux, presumably due to DRM concerns.

Which platforms have you had issues with? All the ones I use (HBO Max, Crunchyroll, Netflix, Disney+, Amazon and Hulu) work fine, surprisingly. You do sometimes need to use a closed browser (Chrome, particularly) or enable DRM (Firefox), though.