blankmind@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•(Linux users !) What was the first Linux distro that you used ?English
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1 year agoSlackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.
Slackware. Fall of '93. Well over 20, 3.5" diskettes. Sacrificed my OS/2 machine to do this.
No mention of Mosaic (first web browser)? What sucked was you generally had to compile it yourself. That meant installing all the build tooling, building it, and turning it loose. Oh. Windows? Lol. No go. Gotta get an early version of Linux up and running first. That usually meant 20+ diskettes of Slackware installation.
But then you could surf in all the basic HTTP glory. It was a new world and it was awesome.