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Nostalgic Distros?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2024
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I still fondly remember sitting in the Sun Lab at University downloading SLS disk by disk.
SLS 1.0.x still had Linux kernel 0.9x on it.
Just getting X at all on your own PC was like a magic trick.
The number of hours I put into figuring out what X was, the difference between XFree86 and X.ORG , fixing resolution and DPI issues, installing video card drivers (mostly nVidia)... I think all that tinkering prepared me for my career as a systems admin.
I think Slackware came with KDE, which is probably why I leaned toward it for so long. I've been using XFCE for many years, now.