• Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    That was my first distro… in 1993! Because I bought a book with a CD in the back that had the whole thing instead of having to download a bunch of floppies!

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      1 year ago

      A system with a CD drive in 1993 was a luxury. I remember I had to use floppies in 1994.

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        I had a single speed CD rom, but it was hooked up under a weird SCSI arrangement that Slackware wouldn’t recognize.

        So I swapped it out for a 2X IDE drive with a 3CD caddy! Good times!

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      Same, on both counts! I got a smart friend to help me install it and took two weeks between jobs to learn the basics. From there I was a, for the time, qualified Linux admin. Before that, I did have some HPUX experience, but this was enough to build an IT career that I’m still in.