[TriEmbed] Linux beginning

[Pete soper]

For me it was 1993 using Slackware with a .91 kernel. A bazillion 
floppies (or maybe 35) as Brad said. Had to customize/rebuild the kernel 
a lot. Making uucp work was my first goal as I recall. This was on a 
40MHz AMD 386. Printing was an additional adventure, and sound another 
one. I eventually learned to go with the flow so when it came time to 
use ethernet I simply bought one of the blessed cards and followed 
somebody's cookbook and so that was mercifully straight forward.

But at the time at work I had hardware coming out of my ears. My main 
(Encore) machine had four 50Mhz Motorola 88110 processors running BSD 
Unix. So, much like Lars (fantastic dry humor) put it, I mostly used the 
home Linux system to access usenet with uucp. :-)

Pete

On 4/15/23 01:32, Robert Mackie wrote:
> Wow, that's cool to read.  When did folks on this list first use 
> Linux? Just kind of curious since this is the kind of crowd that might 
> have been early adopters.
>
> Rob.
>
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 7:06 PM Peter Soper via TriEmbed 
> <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>
>     The early days of Linux -
>     https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/928581/841b747332791ac4/
>
>     Pete
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