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> Linux distros were still toys at that point. I had Slackware 1.1 running in 1Q94. It had X11 and you could run Mosaic on it plus all of the shell userland.
by kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
> Linux distros were still toys at that point.
I had Slackware 1.1 running in 1Q94. It had X11 and you could run Mosaic on it plus all of the shell userland. It was pretty usable.
- lizknope 4y agoI installed Slackware 2.1 in the fall of 1994. I had everything working. X11, networking, sound, Mosaic. I compiled Spice 3f4 and used it for my EE circuit sims. The next year I asked some questions on a FreeBSD usenet forum and was told to buy a SCSI card, SCSI hard drive, and new network card. No thanks. I just stayed with Linux because the hardware support was much bigger.
- dekhn 4y agoI wasted so much money on SCSI back in those days. This was the thing that finally killed it for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaz_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaz_drive
- lizknope 4y agoI ended up buying a SCSI card in fall 1995 so I could use this. The drive was about $500 but each 650MB cartridge was only $30. I could format it with a ext2 and use it as a regular filesystem. No need to make an ISO image to burn. CD burners weren't cheap yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_Dual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_Dual This technology was later turned into DVD-RAM which was never as popular as DVD+/-R(W)