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Back then 18 floppies added gravitas. Only big important things would take up this many disks.
by queuebert 4y ago
Back then 18 floppies added gravitas. Only big important things would take up this many disks.
- ncmncm 4y agoE.g., Soft Landing Systems Linux. Slackware came out on CDs.
- LocalH 4y agohttps://github.com/hunar1997/Slackware-1.01 https://github.com/hunar1997/Slackware-1.01 Also: > The Linux veterans among the readers will remember that Slackware 1.0 came on 24 floppy disks, 13 of which were the essential A series, while the remaining 11 floppies contained XFree86 and graphical applications. What exciting features could one find in Slackware 1.0? The Linux kernel was at version 0.99pl11 alpha. It came with math emulation and normal hard drive support, TCP/IP, support for ext2fs, msdos and several other file systems, and it even supported a PS/2 style mouse. It was compiled with libc 4.4.1 and g++ 2.4.5. The graphical part of the distribution was based on XFree86 1.3 and the OpenLook Virtual Window Manager was the default desktop environment. https://lwn.net/Articles/40032/ https://lwn.net/Articles/40032/