From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-25 19:40, 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.   
      
   On 1998 I decided I wanted to install Linux. We had a Linux machine at   
   work doing important things, and my new job involved Unix. I wanted to   
   learn more.   
      
   I tried Redhat, I think. It did install, but I reached a prompt and had   
   no idea what to do then.   
      
   It was summer. I found a magazine that had a big article comparing   
   several distros. It said that that SuSE was the easiest on newbies. And   
   soon that summer that or another magazine included two CDs for SuSE 5.3.   
   I installed that one.   
      
   It had a local database of how to solve problems: SuSEhelp. There was   
   easy documentation. There was YaST, that would easily configure things.   
   Soon I bought the box for a 6.1 version. A thick paper book.   
      
   Making graphics work took months, though. Not fully compatible hardware.   
   Reading manuals, trying things... Learning, double booting...   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
   ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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