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<p>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.<br>
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<p>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.
:-)<br>
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<p>Pete<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/15/23 01:32, Robert Mackie wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at
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<div style="font-family:monospace"> <span dir="ltr"
style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">The early days
of Linux - <a
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