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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 00:37:36 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Friend: What was your first Linux distro?

   Me: Slackware back in 94.

   Friend: Did you enjoy installing Slackware?

   Me: Not really. On my first attempt, I lost my DoS partition. Then I couldn't get X running on. But, yes, apart from that, I loved it.

   Friend: And you decided to stick around it for the rest of your life?

   Me: *nervous chuckle*

   Friend: Well?

   Me: Why not? I already lost data, and it can't get worst than this. Lmao. So I kept my Linux, and the rest is history.

   • Daniel Marks (profdc9@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 03:19:13 JST Daniel Marks

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     @nixCraft being able to run a UNIX like system on my desktop at home, being able to develop in C, as compared to Windows 3.1. There were certainly pains (a.out shared libraries and jump tables anyone) but wow that was a huge step up. A couple of years FreeBSD followed once BSD4.4 was released.

   • pr06lefs (pr06lefs@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 05:36:52 JST pr06lefs

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     @nixCraft Mine was SUSE when it became clear BeOS was doomed. Mostly fine, but I remember trying to configure their equivalent of the Start menu and my GUI expectations were decidedly Not Met.

   • Chon Torres (chontorres@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 05:46:02 JST Chon Torres

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     @nixCraft I bought 100 floppies from the Pomona Computer Swap Meet (Los Angeles area), downloaded the Slackware distribution in my college computer lab and then went home to start the installation from my carefully labeled disks.

     After a few years of working on SPARCstations and NeXTcubes, having a working Unix distribution on my own PC felt magical.