• UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    I downloaded slackware from a BBS. It took forever. It booted from two floppies, a boot and a root disk. It did not even have X. I still loved it, because I recently got into programming, and all I had ever programmed on was DOS. In Linux, you could actually malloc() with any amount, even a full megabyte! It was marvellous! Later, I installed it on my HD on a separate partition. The installation process was really fascinating, so much choice, so many new programs! At least the first time.

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      12 days ago

      make menu; make menu config

      I did it so much: Slackware from Source that it seemed almost trivial once I got my first Plextor 3x and ordered the CD by mail lol.

      Edit: I shivered when I thought about it. I had a 486 SX with 1GB RAM, a 64k VLB Tulip Video card and a Connor 340MB HDD. It was slow as snot even then, but Linux was cool for being free.