Over 30 years ago the late Ian Murdock wrote to the comp.os.linux.development newsgroup about the completion of a brand-new Linux release which he named "The Debian Linux Release". He built the release by hand, from scratch, so to speak. Ian...
  • @shadesdk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•11 months ago

    I remember installing a version 0.9x from a set of infomagic cdroms in the mid 90s. Ended up going back to running Slackware for a long time to come though. Hard to understand I’ve been playing with and earning a living with Linux for just about 30 years now. Debian has played a big part in that.

    • LeoOPMEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      I came in a few years after you did; the late 90s. But Slackware was my jam too. Took a while to learn how cfdisk worked. I seem to remember the menu navigation was harder than it should have been. Something like that. Either way, was a fun time. I still remember the futuristic space feeling wallpaper than came with KDE back then.