[lug] Happy 30th, Linux

[John Hernandez]

One of the first useful things I can remember doing with Linux was building
a NAT router for a university lab in around 1997, using the recently added
IP MASQ kernel feature. That was Red Hat 4.0, or maybe 4.1.  I started
using Red Hat as a desktop OS around the time GNOME was first integrated
(was that in 1999?) and did that straight through Fedora 8 or 9.

I defected to Mac OSX 10.5 for desktop use and also began using Debian
4.0.  I can't recall exactly why I jumped off the RH/Fedora train but I
still find Debian to be ideal for my (mostly non-desktop) needs.

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 5:34 PM John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1993, IIRC - Yggdrasil live CD. Then Slackware.
>
> ==
> John
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 3:22 PM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:55:01 -0600
> > Greg Dickinson wrote:
> >
> > > Since 1994: Skackware and kermel 0.94.  I downloaded the disks (30 or
> > > so) at work at CU and used their 10 base T connection.  It was the only
> > > way to get it since I only had a 2400 baud modem at home.
> >
> > I think I didn't try downloading any ISOs until the 56K days. I think I
> > didn't use dialup for anything but e-mail and BBSing until at least 19.2.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure for RH5.2 I went to SoftPro and bought the boxed edition.
> > So I never experienced the joy of the many multi-disk install.
> >
> > --
> > All operating systems suck, but Linux just sucks less
> >  - Linus Torvalds
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