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Historic Linux File Archive Created
jemagid writes "Ibiblio (nee metalab, nee sunsite)
has rummaged through all the old CDs and old
FTP archives we could find, to put together a
beautiful picture of the early days of the Linux community: Historic
Linux. The files include snapshots of
the early Linux archives including sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu, and early distributions such as MCC (Manchester Computing
Center) and SLS (Softlanding Linux Systems), which were some of the first attempts to make Linux easy to install and use. The early RedHat releases are also included, as is early Suse, Debian, Slackware,
and Blade. The early distributions
ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be
fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware."
I can't wait to see how Darl contributed his own special magic to Linux back in the day...
NOT!!!
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
Well, today you can put a small all-but-useless motherboard in a ammo box, install linux, call it an "embedded system" and get it posted to /.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I remember one of the big attractions to linux was supposed to be the ability to make use of old hardware (I have a 386 sitting around here, as well as a 486). Unfortunately, that was never the case from what I could tell- three years ago I tried installing two different distros, and almost fell thru the hole in my ass when it said installation would require over 1gb! If I need a bloated OS that only runs on new hardware, why bother learning a different OS? Its not like I have nothing better to do than go through an entirely new learning curve, especially since Im already at high expert level on MS's OS and products. This isnt really a rant, but for me, I dont see a compelling reason to even try it out, much less switch over.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
> While GNU/Linux was nowhere nearly as useful as it is today, it could already do things MS Windows can't do today.
Yes, and MS Windows can do something Linux still can't do today, run Win32 software well. Don't even give me crap about WINE. WINE was crap in 1994 when I first looked at it, and it is crap now when I looked at it a few months ago. It was crap, is crap and will always be crap.
Oh, and if you don't like my smart ass remark, well, Windows can do network IO completion ports for high performance networking. Linux is stuck with select/poll still, which means wake up the thread, go in a FOR LOOP to check each socket, then do something... SLOW. And Linus still has something up his but with BSD style completion ports.
- Voxel
Modesty is one of life's greatest attributes