From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:01:28 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
      
   > Anyway, my first distro was the old RedHat 6. Then I bought a no-name   
   > laptop with Windows NT on it, and used that for awhile. Then I tried to   
   > install RedHat. Partway through the screen would blank and a weird glow   
   > would appear. (I later learned it was some issue with the AMD K6 CPU.)   
      
   My first was Slackware. First I downloaded a couple of boxes of floppies   
   worth over dialup and then painfully assembled them. I forget what the   
   donor box was.   
      
   iirc the basic OS was under 20 floppies but if you wanted gcc,   
   build_tools, and other pieces of a working system it was over 30.   
      
   I think the second time around it was Mandrake from a shrink-wrapped box.   
   Much more pleasant experience. Mandrake was sort of the Ubuntu of its day.   
      
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