| MauricioF | ivazquez: i'm came from Slack...and BSD |
| ivazquez | Yeah, quite a sea change. |
| MauricioF | i use RH 6.2 like my 2 distro |
| g_harris | bah my first distro was boot/root floppies from Linus's ftp site at college around 1991 |
| MauricioF | ivazquez: no, my desktop still slack, but i get a work adminitering by remote a CentOS |
| g_harris | then it was... yggradisil? forget exactly, came on 15 floppies or was it 33 floppies took forever to download at 9600 baud |
| MauricioF | g_harris: i didn't have pc in that time |
| overseer | took forever to write to 33 floppies |
| MauricioF | 33...and no one damage? |
| g_harris | haha yeah it took a long time I acutally got X working at 1024x768 on my 17" monitor back then, I was king dog I thought |
| MauricioF | g_harris: i can imgane it |
| overseer | there was a lot of "sitting around waiting to juggle floppies" |
| donavan | g_harris, was your favorite pre 1.0 kernel release .505 or .687? |
| MauricioF | g_harris: how can u got that conection to get Linus's ftp? |
| donavan | or was it .689? my memory fails me |
| g_harris | uhm hell I don't remember the versions, I want to say there was like .47pl5 and like .91 or .93 and some pl I remember downloading those first 2 floppies the boot/root ones and I got this cryptic $ prompr (or was it %) and I was like "ok now what" |
| MauricioF | g_harris: and u thougt....where is the manual? the help? |
| g_harris | it was get linux running at home or drive 25 miles to the university computer lab to do my CS...301? 201? 205? assignments god so long ago :( |
| MauricioF | g_harris: at work? u must write your memorys... in 10 years...will be a great history... |
| g_harris | that was during college back then, quit because I took the ONLY unix class they had and was like "this rules, windows 3.0 and dos is pretty stupid" and quit and just learned stuff on my own in the field |
| MauricioF | jajajajaja UNIX class? what kind of UNIX? |
| g_harris | "unix programming" basically just shell scripts and perl |
| MauricioF | uouh... in 1991 in my college i learned gw basic... :S which college was you? |
| g_harris | pascal/turbo pascal and C is what we learned the C was uhm, Turbo C (C+?) and Borland C I think, god I forget anymore |
| MauricioF | yes...i try to forget C... i love python g_harris: which is your country? |
| g_harris | USA |
| MauricioF | oh...there is a big difference in technology... i understand now |