From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 12/25/25 10:40, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:27:25 -0500, jayjwa wrote:   
   >   
   >> Nuno Silva  writes:   
   >>   
   >>> Funny thing, that's how my first distro got picked. Uknownst to me   
   >>> then,   
   >>> but knownst to me now, there was a step in the bootstrapping process of   
   >>> that machine which used an incorrect/incomplete and needless El Torito   
   >>> implementation (I should have just used the one in AMIBIOS   
   >>> directly...). This failed to boot a lot of install media (and also live   
   >>> media). IIRC I ended up going with the first that booted.   
   >> That's what happened to me. I had Slackware, maybe Debian, and maybe   
   >> Mandrake (?) - it's been a long time - but Slackware booted and others   
   >> didn't. I can't say it was because of the same issue but the effect was   
   >> the same.   
   >   
   > My first Linux install was Slackware from a couple of boxes of floppies.   
   > Later I had Red Hat Linux at work when they pulled off their gcc fiasco in   
   > 2000. Another rational choice -- I walked over to Best Buy, or maybe   
   > Future Shoppe at that point, and they had SUSE in a box. Sold. I still   
   > have the boxed set. I don't know if you can even find something like that   
   > anymore.   
      
   I did not start using Linux as early as you guys.   
   A friend of mine now passed on, helped me choose Mandriva. Then he   
   could not figure   
   out how to get a copy to me. A pal in Norway shipped me a DVD with   
   Mandriva 2006   
   as 6 CD iso file.  I has after using Amiga computers from Commodore   
   gotten my   
   hands on a 2400 MHz Pentium laptop with XP and used the tools on the XP   
   to write those 6 iso files to CDs then booted them up on the same   
   Windows machines and   
   installed Mandriva.  I was delighted with it.  I used Mandriva paying   
   for the Power   
   packed edition with proprietary tools until they produced a version in   
   2011 that would not run on my machines and then I moved  on to PCLinuxOS   
   in 2014.  PCLinuxOS has an excellent forum with coders and with the   
   packager ready to fix anything when it   
   goes amiss.  I haven't had many problems with the KDE's Plasma 6.   
   	   
   bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2026- Linux 6.12.63-pclos1- KDE Plasma   
   6.5.4   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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