[ale] Ancient desktop

Boris Borisov bugyatl at gmail.com
Tue May 9 10:24:21 EDT 2023


There is some ancient stuff here:

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distributions/


On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:07 Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> slackware.cs.utah.edu
>
> On Tue, May 9, 2023, 10:05 DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> On 5/9/23 07:31, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>> > I'm gonna look at the v 1.3 I found in their downloads. My testing of
>> > it was from '95-97 time frame. Many thanks!
>> >
>>
>> I kept an old Walnut Creek 6-disc Linux collection. Used to buy $15
>> updates from Microcenter every 6 months during most of the 1990s.
>>
>> Can probably find a Slackware 0.96 disc somewhere here.  I didn't have a
>> CDROM at the time, so I'd buy 50 floppies and stay late at work to use the
>> CDROM drive on my workstation there to build the floppies from the CDROM.
>>
>> I was living outside Houston then and it was a 45min drive on Sunday
>> morning to get to the "PC area" of town. It was a full day to head over
>> there and visit NewEgg, Microcenter, CompUSA, and a few others that have
>> long died.
>>
>> Life these days with Linux is 1000x easier.
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