remembering when linux fist came out.

i remember these days and the installation process. and all the other hassles.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/24/my-first-time-with-linux/#continued

 

I was proud of a PC I built at work back in 1999. It was a quadruple boot system, win95, 98, dos 6.22, and Redhat Linux. I just used it for testing purposes but it was cool at the time.

 

Ah, the days of downloading SLS Linux to 60+ 1.44MB floppy discs. Any time a new distribution would be released, I would be in the computer lab at school for hours, babysitting 6-8 PCs. No clickable links here; you had to type the file name into the FTP program. I used NcFTP on the Windows 3.x machines; it had tab file name completion...

The sad part was the downloading was the easiest/fast part...