From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2022-11-27 21:13, Andrew wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux#Origins   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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