I first installed SLS Linux in 1992. It came as floppy disk images on a CD-ROM. I installed it on my girlfriend's new 386 computer, which had a monster 10MB har

I first installed SLS Linux in 1992. It came as floppy disk images on a CD-ROM. I installed it on my girlfriend's new 386 computer, which had a monster 10MB hard disk. It booted up to the text console. I logged in, typed ls, was happy it looked like the Sun machines I had used in college. Then deleted it because she needed the space for DOS, Lotus 123, dBase IV, and WordPerfect. I used Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, etc in my day job. I used to try to install Debian on my new computers and fail because the kernel on the installer CD was too old to support the latest chips. Finally I switched my desktop to RedHat Linux in the late 90s. For a while, I ran Gentoo, which meant compiling everything from scratch as part of the installation process. One day for everything up to text mode, then another day to get KDE running.