On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:14, Gerald Oskoboiny wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 07:39:16AM -0400, Hugo Haas wrote:
> > * Gerald Oskoboiny <[email protected]> [2001-10-18 01:50-0400]
> > A long time ago, I added myself[3] to the Linux counter[4]. I started
> > with Slackware in February 1996, to quickly move to Debian in August.
> > Life has never been the same since. ;-)

Ah, you newbies! <grin/> I first used linux back in 93/94 when my friend
Kevin (on the same floor in our dorm) installed it on his PC. It was sweet
because we could have one tty for emacs, and the other for the compiler,
and we didn't have to use the crappy vt100 terminals in the lounge, or go
all the way to CS to use the nice X boxes (HP9000s or SGIs). Before the
winter break I created my pile of ~42 floppies and my brother and I
installed it at home over the break, though we never could get the video
driver to work without giving us (literal) headaches.

That's also the time I got serious RSI and had to back off geeking all
together, and only eased back in very timidly by writing policy papers in
Word on my Win95 box (which was much less tempting to tweak, just had to
limit myself to email and Word).

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