fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoLinux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the worldwww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square19linkfedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down14
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minus-squareOmgpwnies@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoTBF, in 1992 you might have had a hard time getting slackware at all since it was officially released in 1993. However, when I first used it around 1997, it was just a stack of floppies, no CD needed.
minus-squarePetteriPano@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 hours agoThat’s painful. I had a proper purchased slackware 3.1 CD in 1997. I tried a two-diskette non-distro from “so much shareware 2”. I think it was minted in 1993 and labelled Linux 0.99b
TBF, in 1992 you might have had a hard time getting slackware at all since it was officially released in 1993.
However, when I first used it around 1997, it was just a stack of floppies, no CD needed.
That’s painful. I had a proper purchased slackware 3.1 CD in 1997.
I tried a two-diskette non-distro from “so much shareware 2”. I think it was minted in 1993 and labelled Linux 0.99b