That was my first distro… in 1993! Because I bought a book with a CD in the back that had the whole thing instead of having to download a bunch of floppies!
Same, on both counts! I got a smart friend to help me install it and took two weeks between jobs to learn the basics. From there I was a, for the time, qualified Linux admin. Before that, I did have some HPUX experience, but this was enough to build an IT career that I’m still in.
That was my first distro… in 1993! Because I bought a book with a CD in the back that had the whole thing instead of having to download a bunch of floppies!
A system with a CD drive in 1993 was a luxury. I remember I had to use floppies in 1994.
I had a single speed CD rom, but it was hooked up under a weird SCSI arrangement that Slackware wouldn’t recognize.
So I swapped it out for a 2X IDE drive with a 3CD caddy! Good times!
Same, on both counts! I got a smart friend to help me install it and took two weeks between jobs to learn the basics. From there I was a, for the time, qualified Linux admin. Before that, I did have some HPUX experience, but this was enough to build an IT career that I’m still in.