What Is The Oldest Linux Installation CD You Have?
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I first got an Ubuntu 8.04 CD which I got delivered by Canonical.
I was doing my computers degree and our professor had given a demo on Linux when we
were learning Operating systems. I got curious about Linux and since then I got at least
one distribution on my PC.
Hello again,
Critical is the date on my attached Linux early evidence.
Did Suse use format dd,mm,yy (European standard) or
mm,dd,yy (American standard) ?
This could have an effect on your results.
Sorry to find a hair in the soup.
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,600
Original Poster
Rep:
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Originally Posted by DesKelly
Hello
As I wrote recently:
I have a stiffey diskette I assume that the reason was that it was too early for CD's.
Marketed by S.u.S.E in Fürth.
Labled Linux SLS 1.04
Best. Nr.2002 Stand 12/11/93
I cannot see any means of sending a picture as I was before. My previous message had a picture. Have you lost it?
It wasn't lost, and it was counted (In fact, you posted the second oldest entry, after the two "Fall of 1993" CD's). You'll notice you've been upgraded to a Contributing Member.
Y...
PS: I'll have to check my CDs. Original ones I think Caldera Linux 1.2 was my first one, along with Conectiva 5...
Well, I did not find my Caldera 1.2 CD
See if you can view my original CDs here: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-h...901/15%2B-%2B1
The other 30 I have are recorded from ISOs (many, many distros and versions).
Cheers!
Just found these two (both from early 1996) and thought we could have a little fun. The member who posts a genuine picture of the oldest Linux installation CD they have in their possession by September 4th will be upgraded to a contributing member and will be able to pick one item out of the LQ Merchandise Store paid for by me.
--jeremy
dear jeremy i missed the deadline by three days as dont check my email often but i have genuine debian gnu/linux 3.1 sarge 4.4gb linux magazine issue 43 dated june 2004...very happy keeping it stored away ps i have pobably earlier one red hat 5.0 i think somewhere first i ever saw...(i hope i have anyway) that was the earliest i remember....purchasing..ps hope i still have it that is but i'm sure to have many others around that date... why the big deal though...just curious..?
And also I had a clear out about 3 months ago... Scratch one pair of
3.5" MCC interim linux boot/install floppies. I cant remember if it
was .95 or 1.0, but the entire distro came on 2 floppies... plus another for GCC if I remember correctly. Now the question is were they
720s or 1.44s??
So, who else remembers why "f00f" struck fear into PC users across the
planet, and "-froot" caused a lot of recompiling?
My oldest Distro is a SuSE on 30 Floppy Disks with a Kernel 0.99.13. Haven't tried them for some time... Heck, I even don't know whether they are readable...
Just checked,
Yggdrasil Linux LGX fall 1993 and you have to start it from the disk.
LOL I have them both the 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch drive + CD-rom
If I recall setting up the x-server was tricky on my single sync 19 Inch screen.
I have only just read this thread. I have 2 cds
1 Sams Teach yourself Linux in in 24 hours, It looks like a floppy image on a cd 1998. version 1.0 ISBN 0-672-31162-3 07/08/96
2 Redhat Linux 5.2 08/12/98
cheers
Last edited by nigelc; 10-07-2015 at 12:52 AM.
Reason: Made a mistake
Having moved several times, I no longer have the media, but my first introduction came when I purchased a unix CD with some Berkeley source on it in 1993. (I paid 60 pounds for a CD that cost about $20 in the US.)
This site keeps ditching the pound sign :-(
I archived off my SCO system and copied the BSD floppy images but couldn't get them to do anything. Then I found this thing called Linux - a bootable image and a set of directories for more software. I made a small set of floppies and in no time had a usable Linux command line. Then I managed to mount the CD (had a SCSI CD drive) and loaded everything else I needed directly from there. I had a Soft Landing System Linux system! I told friends about it saying that it was such a joy that it was like discovering unix all over again! After some fiddling and research I was able configure X for my 15" Gateway monitor.
Unfortunately, although a friend told me about this new(ish) addition to the internet called the World Wide Web, the NCSA browser was awkward to use as it was too tall for my 1024x768 screen.
I've been a Linux user ever since, although I had to reinstate SCO a couple of times for work purposes :-(
Last edited by normanlinux; 10-14-2015 at 09:03 AM.
Thanks for all the posts, keep them coming! I'll periodically check on the thread and will continue to upgrade members as they post; no guarantee on how long that offer will last though. The following members will be upgrade to Contributing Members.
Note that while the CD I posted was from early 1996, I upgraded anyone who posted a CD from 1996 or earlier. Now, on to the winner. It appears we may have a 2 way (and could have been 3 way, as HaveQuestion never uploaded a pic) tie, with thyrsus and spernoga both having "Fall of 1993" CDs. As Yggdrasil was also my first distro (and I think the Fall 1993 CD was actually the one I had), I am going to buy you both something from the LQ Merchandise Store. Please pick an item and contact me offline.
If I missed anyone or you spot an error, please let me know.
--jeremy
The "ls -l" listing in my post (#30) shows the latest date in October 1993 rather than the August 1993 I stated that got ranked as August 1994. I believe it should be in the "Fall of 1993" group as well as extra points for its primordial naked and wild feral state.
I bought a boxed copy of Red Hat 7.2 whenever it came out. I don't think I have it anymore... nope, just looked. Must have thrown it out. Every distro after that I've just downloaded.
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