[ale] slackware, the most...LINUX-like?

Björn Gustafsson bg-ale at bjorng.net
Wed Jun 2 17:49:40 EDT 2010


I picked up my first Walnut Creek CDs around 1993, in their very early
days.  They're probably still around at home somewhere.  Slackware was
my first distro!

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Wed June 2 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Once Walnut Creek started making CD sets of everything Linux on the
>> pre-'net I ordered the subscription immediately and the first set of 2 CD's
>> arrived before I had the funds scraped to buy a CD drive! That was an
>> agonizing 2 weeks!!
>>
>> Slackware is still amazing.
>
> I'd have to dig them out somewhere, but I think it was Walnut creek that I
> bought mine from.. I remember the excitement when I got a complete OS  in the
> mail on CD !!! 1996 maybe??
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
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Björn Gustafsson



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