I was running Coherent too. At the time it was version 3.2.1A running on a 80286. Then I made a microscopic donation to the Free Software Foundation and so they mailed me the June 1992 issue of GNU Bulletin, which had a small blurb about Linux on pages 27-28, the first I ever heard of it. It's postmarked Sep. 9, 1992 so that means I started running Linux on my father's 386 no later than mid-September. Only wiped out his partition table twice.:) I upgraded myself to a 386 shortly thereafter so I could run Linux on my own system. It was a dual-boot system but Linux became my primary OS in a surprisingly short amount of time.
I tried 386BSD too (it was mentioned right under the Linux blurb) but it didn't like something about my hardware. Wanted to try Minix but couldn't afford it.
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I was running Coherent too. At the time it was version 3.2.1A running on a 80286. Then I made a microscopic donation to the Free Software Foundation and so they mailed me the June 1992 issue of GNU Bulletin, which had a small blurb about Linux on pages 27-28, the first I ever heard of it. It's postmarked Sep. 9, 1992 so that means I started running Linux on my father's 386 no later than mid-September. Only wiped out his partition table twice. :) I upgraded myself to a 386 shortly thereafter so I could run Linux on my own system. It was a dual-boot system but Linux became my primary OS in a surprisingly short amount of time.
I tried 386BSD too (it was mentioned right under the Linux blurb) but it didn't like something about my hardware. Wanted to try Minix but couldn't afford it.