LXer: How old is your oldest Linux install disk?
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Letting go of old installation media can be hard. No, chances are you're never going to install an old distribution with a 2.2 series kernel ever again (or maybe you are, who knows?). But there's a certain nostalgia attached to the physical relics of your early days with computing, particularly if you managed to save your first Linux boot disk.read more Read More... |
13 years old. Slackware 10.0, on 2 CDs given away with the September, 2004, issue of Linux Format magazine.
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I'm looking at a 2 disk set, dated March 1995, of,
"linux. ready-to-run. SLACKWARE. The Internet's favorite 32-bit multiuser operating system for Intel 386+. Includes Kernel 1.2." I don't see a version number anywhere on the case or the CDs. |
That will be 2.2, according to Wikipedia's Slackware page
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