My very first Linux distro, installed on my Pentium 2 while in high school.
@djsumdog A very fine specimen!
And this one was the start of it all for me. Never had the original box though, I think it might have been an add-on CD to some book or magazine. It's really ancient, I think it still had kernel 1.x and even some stuff in a.out binary format. Like Abuse the game. A lot of GUI stuff was using Tcl/Tk.
@m0xee 1996! Yep, that predates mine. That was when I started high school. I think I was still on a 486 then. I first started learning most of the command line stuff with "Linux in Plain English" in high school. In University, I picked up Beginning Linux Programming.
It's interesting that the way we document and learn software today has changed so much it's really made these types of books practically obsolete. The tech section at most book stores is small to non-existent.
It's interesting that the way we document and learn software today has changed so much it's really made these types of books practically obsolete. The tech section at most book stores is small to non-existent.
I doubt there's even anything out there anymore, but I think my first linux was called something like minilinux, I think this is it: https://mvalente.eu/1995/03/13/mini-linux-is-official-and-yes-there-will-be-a-new-version-someday/
I didn't get a full cd version of linux until much later, and on dial-up you weren't gonna download a CD of anything.
When people talk about how linux's ux sucks, they don't know how far it's come.
I didn't get a full cd version of linux until much later, and on dial-up you weren't gonna download a CD of anything.
When people talk about how linux's ux sucks, they don't know how far it's come.
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@sj_zero It only took 20 megabytes of disk space and you could actually do something with it, e.g. xmosaic. There was also a floppy image of QNX circulating around that time which fit a single floppy and still had a GUI, a TCP/IP stack and browser. This was impressive!
And now a compressed source code of Firefox alone can fill the CD almost entirely 🤪
