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Microsoft should consider including a version of this video on their forthcoming release of Windows 10 to run during the install process. This would make for a

Microsoft should consider including a version of this video on their forthcoming release of Windows 10 to run during the install process. This would make for a happy trip down memory lane for the older folks and it would also show those youngsters out there how much things have improved. The install would breeze by with this little video to watch, plus, if there were any niggles, you would think nothing of it as you would be reminded what a pain it was to install the earlier versions. The video would also be of great practical benefit to those that had spent the last few decades locked away in prison, or having been in a coma or having been in a forced-labour camp in North Korea for all of that time. They could be quickly brought up to speed and made aware of the many new innovations. I think that the use of GParted is telling - the Microsoft way is to force a fresh format of the disk in order to go from FAT16. Coming soon: similar video of Slackware being installed and upgraded from version 0.99 to 14.whatever. That's bound to go viral.

bediger4000 13y ago
A few years ago, I had an old Gateway 400MHz weakling box that could boot Slackware 3.2, and Slackware 13. I couldn't find an earlier version of Slackware that had an ISO image available. Just by-the-by, Slackware 3.2 did not include an ssh of any stripe, just telnet.
- derleth 13y ago
  ibiblio has a number of old distributions, including MCC (the first distro), SLS (which was so bad it inspired both Slackware and Debian), and Yggdrasil (the first commercial distro): http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/ Here's how to run them using qemu: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2097 http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2097 And some history: http://lwn.net/Articles/91371/ http://lwn.net/Articles/91371/
makomk 13y ago
Actually, Microsoft has a FAT16 to FAT32 converter, which he presumably used since I don't recall gparted having that ability. Unfortunately, they provide no way to resize the partition after converting it.
- Theodores 13y ago
  Good point! It's been a while.

bediger4000 13y ago

A few years ago, I had an old Gateway 400MHz weakling box that could boot Slackware 3.2, and Slackware 13. I couldn't find an earlier version of Slackware that had an ISO image available. Just by-the-by, Slackware 3.2 did not include an ssh of any stripe, just telnet.

derleth 13y ago
ibiblio has a number of old distributions, including MCC (the first distro), SLS (which was so bad it inspired both Slackware and Debian), and Yggdrasil (the first commercial distro): http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/ http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/ Here's how to run them using qemu: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2097 http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/2097 And some history: http://lwn.net/Articles/91371/ http://lwn.net/Articles/91371/

makomk 13y ago

Actually, Microsoft has a FAT16 to FAT32 converter, which he presumably used since I don't recall gparted having that ability. Unfortunately, they provide no way to resize the partition after converting it.

Theodores 13y ago
Good point! It's been a while.