Not in my university, i had a used toshiba 386sx25Mhz as a laptop with Windows 3.11. The fastest public desktop computer was a 486DX2 running at 66Mhz, around 6

Not in my university, i had a used toshiba 386sx25Mhz as a laptop with Windows 3.11. The fastest public desktop computer was a 486DX2 running at 66Mhz, around 6 of them on the 4th floor from the physics faculty, that was early 1994. It was running Mosaic and Netscape 0.9 or so with Win 3.11, no dual boot. When I got my own room and built myself a 486DX5@133 Mhz I got RedHat linux on it, dual booting, I think it was '95. My roommate had a pentium with Windows98SE running Moria, he was quite addicted to it. Perhaps some very adventurous types were trying out Linux on their own machines in 1993 but distributions were all pretty new, I am not sure it was written about in Byte or C'T magazine in 1993. Perhaps it was discussed on mailinglists or usenet groups, but it was not really findable on the www I think. I frequented a site called 'on the bleeding edge' featuring a picture of a knife (or so I remember) and a list of kernel version numbers and patches. Not sure what date, but might have been '95. I remember downloading and compiling kernel 1.1 or 1.2 - which were released in 1994. In 1995 I bought the offical RedHat CD's, I might have tried Slackware or Debian floppy disks earlier. A friend was running Linux with X-Windows, Emacs and Mosaic on his Pentium with WindowMaker or AfterStep. No dual-boot. He was on usenet (with the built-in netscape usenet reader) and played with Lisp, he had studied physics (or was it philosophy) at the Utrecht University. Heaps of Byte and Astronomy magazines and SF books littered in his room where he enjoyed a glass of wine and a cigar. I occasionally dropped by for a chat about linux, SF, astronomy and the meaning of life and my own troubles. I think he had dropped out of college for some reason years ago but I never dared asking why. He was brilliant and stayed in the student dorm as a senior. Unfortunately at 45 or so he died in his sleep I heard later when I wasn't living there anymore. He had a good job at the municipality and was well respected for his knowledge, seriousness, dry and dark humor and wit and was still living in the student dorm.