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RE: already so long ..
by StephenBeDoper on Sat 11th Apr 2009 23:54
in reply to "already so long .."
Quite incredible how far Linux and OSS in general has spread in the meanwhile .
That's for sure. When I first played around with Linux: I had to manually change IRQs to get my network card working, it took about 6 hours of effort just to get X up and running, Netscape Navigator was the only "decent" available GUI browser, I ended up using PINE because every GUI mail client I tried required a local mail spool (aka, they couldn't connect to POP3 or SMTP servers directly), and there was the LILO issue with booting a Linux installation if the partition was past the 1024th cylinder.
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- and of course : Never ! log in as root !
Oh yeah ! - getting some damn life out of these things ..
For me it is a bit less than 10 years ago .
SuSE 8.1 bought in the shop with manuals (in blue AFAIR).
Except for short durations of being on Vectorlinux or Live-CDs ,I have been a reasonably happy Chameleon since (SuSE 11.1 - Windowmaker) .
For me the reason was a butchered partition table by using Windows fdisk one time too many .
The idea of OSS I also found very interesting at the time .
Quite incredible how far Linux and OSS in general has spread in the meanwhile .
I remember reading that suppossedly Linux could show up hardware failures earlier because it talked to the hardware more aggressivly
BTW osnews.com was the first regular geek site i visited & have daily for the last 9 years or so - just had to register to comment a few years later .
Edited 2009-04-11 22:53 UTC