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Old July 18th 03, 01:19 AM
Paul Tomblin
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In a previous article, Neal said:
BTW, FYI, Slackware is 10 years old today :-)
That was my first exposure to Linux back in fall of '93 when me and
co-workers downloaded the floppy image files from a BBS over a 2400
baud modem. Those were the days!


I installed SLS 1.03 (with kernel 0.99.14plg) on about 10 386 and 486
machines in my lab back in 1992. From dozens of floppies. You'd march
the floppies around the lab, starting with disk 1 in machine 1, then
moving it onto machine 2 while machine 1 dealt with disk 1, and so on.

Loads of fun.

Upgrading to Slackware 1.0 was a treat, if only because it came on CD and
had an "install via NFS" option - you could stick the CD on your
SPARCStation and export it, then install all 10 machines at a time.

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