Similar. It came on a cover CD with minimal instructions for a complete noob. I like to tell the story of how I managed to get X running before I learned the command to delete a file (having learned DEL with DOS and ERA with my 8bit Amstrad CPC) -- rm is obvious in hindsight, but then so much with Linux is only natural and intuitive in hindsight. A couple of years later a few friends I was sharing a house with managed to fashion a primitive internet router using a spare 486, a 56k modem, and IIRC FreeBSD, a
I like to tell the story of how I managed to get X running before I learned the command to delete a file (having learned DEL with DOS and ERA with my 8bit Amstrad CPC) -- rm is obvious in hindsight, but then so much with Linux is only natural and intuitive in hindsight
Funnily enough, I learned how to remove files on Unix a decade before I actually saw a Unix machine. The joys of layman parents buying their children the wrong computer books... (Well, not really "wrong" in retrospect -- it preconditioned me to like Unix like I imagine it would do to any impressionable eight year old!)
slack was my first (Score:2)
Slack was my first distro in 1995/6 IIRC... fond memories. Running it on an old 486DX4 with X. Congratulations Slackware!
Re: (Score:4, Interesting)
Similar. It came on a cover CD with minimal instructions for a complete noob. I like to tell the story of how I managed to get X running before I learned the command to delete a file (having learned DEL with DOS and ERA with my 8bit Amstrad CPC) -- rm is obvious in hindsight, but then so much with Linux is only natural and intuitive in hindsight. A couple of years later a few friends I was sharing a house with managed to fashion a primitive internet router using a spare 486, a 56k modem, and IIRC FreeBSD, a
Re:slack was my first (Score:2)
I like to tell the story of how I managed to get X running before I learned the command to delete a file (having learned DEL with DOS and ERA with my 8bit Amstrad CPC) -- rm is obvious in hindsight, but then so much with Linux is only natural and intuitive in hindsight
Funnily enough, I learned how to remove files on Unix a decade before I actually saw a Unix machine. The joys of layman parents buying their children the wrong computer books... (Well, not really "wrong" in retrospect -- it preconditioned me to like Unix like I imagine it would do to any impressionable eight year old!)