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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Happy birthday Linux kernel!
On March14, 1994, the Linux kernel 1.0.0 was released to a grateful world. As someone who felt stuck on 0.99 just about forever, it was happy dance time.
I pretty clearly needed to get a life, but y'all know that anyway.
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Downloaded SLS floppy images from BBSes: Check.
Searched for months for one of the three supported video cards for X Windows: Check.
Ah, the "good" old days.
Alan, I got mine originally on the box-o-floppy-disks (20 disks, IIRC).
And I had a "fast" 32 kbps Frame Relay connection!
Debian, folks... Debian.
UUCP connection upstream via PPP, and ftp from mit, dec, etc.
my old addy was decvax!bhjat!bhj
Check the '94 and '95 Yggdrasil books -- you'll find me there, too...
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