[Devil-linux-develop] Re: OT: linux 1.0 (Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Invalidate : Dirty buffer error)

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > So, when/what-version was your first Linux?
> 
> Not 1.0 but 1.2.

Not bad.  Here's something I find interesting:

Even with my 1.0/1994 start with Linux, there are TWO other members of
my local Linux Users Group who have been using Linux longer than I
have!  On guy started with a 0.9something.

I'm a member of the most active LUG in the USA, possibly the world.
We meet, and have presentations, EVERY WEEK (except for major holidays).
We've been doing that for at least six years, and still going strong.
We have about 250 people from all over the world on our main mailing
list, and we average about 30 people at each meeting.  We have brought
in guest speakers from IBM, SuSE, TurboLinux and other major Linux
corporations.  We are currently flying a Ximian developer in from Boston
to give a presentation at an upcoming meeting.  We have LTSP and
wireless networks running at our meeting location.  We're currently
building an AsteriskPBX box, and used to run a Linux based cyber-cafe
until the building was sold out from under us.  We have a booth at a
traveling computer sale this Sunday to promote Linux, and we even
produce our own Linux distribution (created by your's truly :)   

Sorry for the off-topic plug, but I'm really proud of these guys, and
I'm proud to be the sysadmin and co-webmaster of the web server.  So, if
you know of anyone wanting to learn more about Linux have them check out
our presentation notes from prior meetings, and/or sign up for our
mailing list(s) and learn by listening and asking questions.

One last plug:  If anyone is learning LDAP, head to the web site right
now.  One of our officers created the best OpenLDAP documentation
available anywhere.  He's currently talking with O'Reilly about making
it into a book.  Currently available as PDF freely downloadable from our
web site:   http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/

> >>>Don't get me wrong, Linux has always been extremely stable, even back in
> >>>the 1.0 days, but it was very rough around the edges, and there wasn't
> >>>much software available for it (compared to today).
> >>>
> >>>I should send you a copy of my 1.0 CD so you can really appreciate how
> >>>good we have it now!  :-)  But you may have to find a 386 to run it on. 
> >>>I'm not sure it would run on modern hardware...
> >>
> >>Have you tried vmware?
> > 
> > No, I haven't tried it on anything since the mid 90's.
> > But, that's not a bad idea.  I'll have to dig it up and play.
> 
> I guess you then have to play with the "operating system" knob in the
> vmware configurator.

The base system will probably run, but I have serious doubts about
getting X to run on any video card available today.  I doubt VMware has
drivers for the XFree86 version that comes on this distro!  ;-)

 - BS