From: Doug@hyperspace.vogon.gov   
      
   bad sector wrote:   
   > On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 21:51:56 -0700, Sidney_Kotic wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 11/26/22 19:32, bad sector wrote:   
   >>   > Slackware, among other things the fastest boot I think   
   >>   
   >> I've probably run Slackware some time in the past.  Started with kernel   
   >> 1.0.0 on 50 bazillion 3.5" diskettes each FTP'd using a computer running   
   >> SunOS 4.11, then loaded onto a x86 machine running Windows 3.1 and   
   >> worked my way up to openSUSE. First actual "release" was Yggdrasil on a   
   >> live CD.  This little computer boots fine.  AMD 5700G with a 1TB SSD.   
   >> Fits in my suitcase and I carry it back and forth from where I live in   
   >> the summer to where I live in the winter, which is exactly why I bought   
   >> the parts and assembled it.  It has 3 moving parts, two fans and the   
   >> on/off switch, so the airline hasn't managed to break it yet.   
   >   
   > Slackware and Suse I'll never forget. While I was still on the Amiga   
   > I read this swedish guy 'rebel-rousing' on compuserve with words to the   
   > effect that:   
   >   
   > "I run free Slackware Linux on a 486 PC clone and I find everything I need   
   > on usenet which is also free"   
   >   
   > I was 'sold', I mean just on the basis of the tone! But at that point in   
   > time I had no clue what a PC was, Linux or Slackware, a 486 or usenet.   
   > So I got going and in a month had all of them. Soon after that I   
   > discovered Suse which had just forked off from Slackware, and have been   
   > getting spoiled rotten ever since :-)   
   >   
   >   
      
   SuSE started life as a Slackware fork?  I thought the starting point had   
   been Red Hat.  The first level I installed was 4.x and thought they were   
   using rpm by then.   
      
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