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The first Debian release I used was slink (released March 1999). I stopped using debian on most of my personal machines when they switched to systemd. This is

The first Debian release I used was slink (released March 1999). I stopped using debian on most of my personal machines when they switched to systemd. This is because a few of them refused to boot or exhibited strange init related bugs after the switch.

FlyMoreRockets 7y ago
My first Debian was also Slink, installed from a box of floppies onto a 486. Had to use rawrite to put the disk image onto the floppies. That box of floppies is still around here somewhere, though the 486 is long gone.
- IronBacon 7y ago
  I remember the troubles using "dselect" without a stable internet connection, "apt" came quite later (with Potato or Woody, don't recall). On the other hand, I never had the need to try something else...
  - FlyMoreRockets 7y ago
    The thing that most impressed me about the install was the experimental hardware detection. I had a list of all she system hardware and the installer only missed a single component. Even then, it was an alternate recommendation.
  - asveikau 7y ago
    I think apt was actually in slink. I remember the dist-upgrade to potato over a modem. It was so far ahead of the rpm based distros then. But the installer still dropped you into dselect for a long time thereafter. Once it was installed it was smooth sailing.
Iwan-Zotow 7y ago
Younglings... 0.93r5
- chx 7y ago
  We can play this game, I started on Linux with 0.99pl15 but I can pretty much guarantee you given this place someone will show up within an hour who got on the train in '92 and within a day someone who did in '91. Related: on the occassion of Little Richard dying I have reflected on how every Beatles album was released closer to World War I than today. (Almost, Abbey Road needs a few more months, it'll be true on Aug 13.)
  - dleslie 7y ago
    /me waves I remember the arrival of Linux. I'm not even all that old, but time sure does fly.
  - asveikau 7y ago
    Let It Be was a year after Abbey Road, in 1970. Very underrated album too.
    - chx 7y ago
      Ah yes, sorry I forgot. Well then we have one more year left. Nonetheless... I was more trying to place Beatles as "wow it was that long ago??"
  - Iwan-Zotow 7y ago
    > I started on Linux with 0.99pl15 same here First distro was slackware, 0.99pl15, bunch of floppies
rleigh 7y ago
Snap. It's only the last year I chucked away my slink, potato and woody CDs. I had terrible problems with NFS and systemd. In fact, when testing Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM, the problems are still there even today. It's not freezing on boot as regularly, but it's still unpredictable and often freezes on shutdown.

FlyMoreRockets 7y ago

My first Debian was also Slink, installed from a box of floppies onto a 486. Had to use rawrite to put the disk image onto the floppies. That box of floppies is still around here somewhere, though the 486 is long gone.

IronBacon 7y ago
I remember the troubles using "dselect" without a stable internet connection, "apt" came quite later (with Potato or Woody, don't recall). On the other hand, I never had the need to try something else...
- FlyMoreRockets 7y ago
  The thing that most impressed me about the install was the experimental hardware detection. I had a list of all she system hardware and the installer only missed a single component. Even then, it was an alternate recommendation.
- asveikau 7y ago
  I think apt was actually in slink. I remember the dist-upgrade to potato over a modem. It was so far ahead of the rpm based distros then. But the installer still dropped you into dselect for a long time thereafter. Once it was installed it was smooth sailing.

Iwan-Zotow 7y ago

Younglings... 0.93r5

chx 7y ago
We can play this game, I started on Linux with 0.99pl15 but I can pretty much guarantee you given this place someone will show up within an hour who got on the train in '92 and within a day someone who did in '91. Related: on the occassion of Little Richard dying I have reflected on how every Beatles album was released closer to World War I than today. (Almost, Abbey Road needs a few more months, it'll be true on Aug 13.)
- dleslie 7y ago
  /me waves I remember the arrival of Linux. I'm not even all that old, but time sure does fly.
- asveikau 7y ago
  Let It Be was a year after Abbey Road, in 1970. Very underrated album too.
  - chx 7y ago
    Ah yes, sorry I forgot. Well then we have one more year left. Nonetheless... I was more trying to place Beatles as "wow it was that long ago??"
- Iwan-Zotow 7y ago
  > I started on Linux with 0.99pl15 same here First distro was slackware, 0.99pl15, bunch of floppies

rleigh 7y ago

Snap. It's only the last year I chucked away my slink, potato and woody CDs. I had terrible problems with NFS and systemd. In fact, when testing Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM, the problems are still there even today. It's not freezing on boot as regularly, but it's still unpredictable and often freezes on shutdown.