Anyone old enough to remember using v1.0?
- mvuvi ( @mvuvi@baraza.africa ) 15•1 year ago
Off-topic, your hair looks like it’s charged by your touching the coffee cup.
Need the coffee to figure out my dependency tree after decades of manually installing things… ☕ (I kid, of course. That’s what the meth is for…)
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
I never want to touch a Slackware box, but I respect the hell out of it, and I’m glad it exists
- _thebrain_ ( @_thebrain_@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•1 year ago
I installed 1.0… all 23 discs that I downloaded at 2400bps because I couldn’t afford a faster modem.
Does the math. 24 disks, 1.44 MB each. 34.5 MB total. That’s 34,500,000 bytes. 2400 bps is actually 300 bytes per second, assuming no bits wasted on error correction or something. So 115k seconds. Or about 32 hours. Assuming no errors, blips, kids pickup up the phone, etc. Probably at least three days if you can only use your modem during off-peak hours like most of us dial up users of the era.
Do you remember it fondly? Or do you shudder in pain? ;)
- LucyLastic ( @LucyLastic@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Not OP but, personally not having a modem at that time, I convinced a well-off friend that he should try it. Then I copied his disks.
- JaxiiRuff ( @JaxiiRuff@pawb.social ) 5•1 year ago
I thought you were Richard Hammond for a moment
- smo ( @smo@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year ago
3.3 was my first love. Old enough to make me old, without being old enough to be cool.
Only thing I could find that’d easily let you install into 3meg of ram. It said you needed 4, but would let you use a second floppy drive instead of loading the first disk into ram.
- LucyLastic ( @LucyLastic@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
sigh yes I remember 1.0 taking up a lot of my 160mb hard disk.
Things I remember: changing the command line font was mindblowing. I managed to get xeyes to run, but not a window manager, so I just had massive eyes following the cursor around. I compiled a lot of my really shoddy C code but had no idea what I was doing. The number of disks that Emacs needed felt disproportionate at 5 when MS Word 2.0 fitted on 3, and Doom fitted on 3 and a half.
It was all very exciting, and felt like you were “sticking it to the man” by not using ms-dos :-)
These days I just use computers as a tool, and as such I have Linux Mint on my home machine.
- mrmanager ( @mrmanager@lemmy.today ) 1•1 year ago
I expected the mug to have slack on it as well :)
But yeah, it’s been quite a ride. I mean Linux in general has evolved so much over the years. My first test of Linux was from some floppy disk supplied by a magazine when I was a kid. These days I only use Linux since about 10 years back or so.
It’s literally the only way to get away from big tech today.
- Zoop ( @Zoop@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
OP is a babe! Congrats on the face and the babeness, OP. :)