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man and the Internet. Yes the internet was around in 1998 :) . News groups, IRC, mailing lists... all existed. Trial and error as well of course. Being from th
by agentgt 9y ago
man and the Internet. Yes the internet was around in 1998 :) . News groups, IRC, mailing lists... all existed.
Trial and error as well of course.
Being from that time period myself (18 years old) and installing Slackware as well RedHat (and even Caldera ... anyone remember that?) there was plenty of documentation.
However unlike the parent poster I got a bunch of Linux distributions by either mail ordering or going to conference. In fact I went to Linux conference in Atlanta circa 1997 and meet Linus himself... but more importantly picked up some distribution CDs/disks.
It was the good ole days for sure.
- hd4 9y agoOh man, the days of needing to go to a conference to pick up Linux CDs. Yes, I definitely remember Caldera. Only thing from that list I haven't done is meet Linus though I guess I will get around to it at some point. Actually come to think of it, Ubuntu really hit the CD nail on the head with Shipit, those of you with 28.8 modems will know this feeling. I still have my 7.04 CD.
- spapas82 9y agoI also remember volunteers at my university who were organizing sessions where you could go with a blank CD and they would copy over a Linux distro! And of course there were computer magazines that offered Linux distros in their CDs!