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13 years ago, I downloaded Debian stable. The 'nv' driver for XFree86 didn't work on my machine, so my first Unix experience was learning how to use vi to edit
by Athas 10y ago
13 years ago, I downloaded Debian stable. The 'nv' driver for XFree86 didn't work on my machine, so my first Unix experience was learning how to use vi to edit the configuration file. Never did get it to work, but Knoppix did (in those days it had famously good hardware detection - I think the key might have been using the 'vesa' driver instead of 'nv').
The graphical environment provided by Knoppix gave me enough comfort to learn how to use the command line and install the proprietary NVIDIA drivers, and I was running pure Debian a few weeks later, and still am on my laptop (although I now prefer OpenBSD on my server).
- ajdlinux 10y agoAll those, uuuuuh, positive and happy memories of editing modelines in XF86Config...
- krylon 10y agoMandatory xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/963/ https://xkcd.com/963/ I tend to agree with the graph, though - editing XF86config / xorg.conf was not a lot of fun.
- Anthony-G 10y agoMy first GNU/Linux experience was with Red Hat 5 on an old hand-me-down laptop during the late 90s. For the first two weeks I couldn't get X to work so I got plenty of command line experience and learned enough vim to edit XF86Config. Still, it was a piece of cake compared to configuring Sendmail!