Can these help?

https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware...-pre-1.0-beta/

"All" here https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware/


But 1993 being ancient?

It's more like yesterday here...

- or maybe it's just me still not recovered from being tangled up in (AutoCad) Lisp

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This guy, ekarlo, has the walnut creek disk "toolkit for linux" that has slackware 2.0 on it from july 94. So this is probably the earliest complete version possible, with source included. And the ISO is not archived. Of course, many versions that are on CD do appear to be complete on the mirrors, but I would like to see some of these ISOs archived for comparison and piece of mind.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post5414021

That Slackware version 2.2 CD is quite odd! Walnut Creek said it came with kernel 1.1.94 on the back. But Pat's release notes says it comes with 1.2.1. I'm thinking it was a typo, and in the changelog, Pat does say he didn't track all the changes. Could there have been a kernel 1.1.94 at some point?

I'm not sure at what point the CDs would have started to be directly bootable without floppy. I certainly didn't boot directly on CDs until sometime in the late 90s. Some of you would know based on the instructions in your copy. By the time I tried linux, they came with bootable CDs.

ekarlo also has a cd-r of slackware 1.02, which has more on his disk backed up than what the current mirror of 1.01 has...

I guess I'll add one more. slackware 8.1 ISO set is not fully archived. Of course it could be recreated, but you know...

On the front of the case, at the bottom, it says, "Includes Kernel 1.2 !" . Note the space between the 2 and the exclamation mark. https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...4&d=1441053394

That was while PNP (which you now take for granted) was being invented. So the graphics card was out there, but the system didn't know what it was. So you had to tell it, and which driver to use. Ditto for monitors, nics, etc. Oh, there were no drivers, really, unless you wanted to write one yourself. Getting yourself going in X was an adventure.

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Slackware 3.3 (1997)
https://archive.org/details/slackware-3.3-1997
(I've not tried to download it myself...)

2.10
https://archive.org/details/LINUXSlackware2.10.7z

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Yeah, went through all that running xf86config, offered numerous options for mouse, monitor, video drivers, etc. I just used guesswork on all of them - and obviously guessed wrong. I believe QEmu offers more choice of emulated hardware, so that might be better for running old distros. I was a late starter as far as computers are concerned and missed out on all the early stuff. First computer in 2002 (Windows Me, then XP Pro), first Linux in 2004 (Slackware 10.0).

There was also some discussion of early CD sets, etc. on this thread:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...re-4175720929/

I mentioned having early Linux Developer's Resource CD sets that included Slackware 2.3 and 3.1. Other Linux archives and distributions were also included. I also have some self-written CDs labelled 7 and 7.1.

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Where do you think the original source of the pre-1.0-beta tree was?

Hint: It's in my signature!

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Oops! Sorry about that... signatures are disabled here...

They certainly tried to cover all the possibilities, didn't they?

A rare piece
Does anyone tested Linux on a 68000 cpu?

The 68000 came out in 1979! The early Macs in late 1982. By the time linux was together, I think it would have been a 68k machine (68010, 68020...) not necessarily a 68000. The 68000/68010 was 16bit.The 68020 was the first 32bit cpu.

Is the original first disk of Slackware 3.4 a bootable CD?

Will have to look and see. We just moved and I need to see if they made it in the packing boxws.

This is a bit off topic but mention of the 68000 chips has prompted a few thoughts of tech lore and an Ancient History thread seems an appropriate place to take note and inject them into the record.

I was a fan of the 68000 machines and worked with some pre-release devices and documentation, which I thought was pretty cool at the time and which strongly influenced my own professional trajectory.

A lead designer on the 68000 was a man named Nick Tredennick, a larger than life character indeed.

I never met Nick and had no contact with him in those earlier years, but we have shared a mutual close friend in more recent years who has passed along occasional anecdotes of Nick's varied activities, and through whom I heard of Nick's tragic accidental death last summer (July 2022).

So to note the passing of a man whose life has affected most of us unawares, please read, Nick Tredennick: Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Thanks Nick, I hope to see you on the other side!

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