News from the front
Don Erickson
derick at zeni.net
Fri Mar 26 22:04:36 CST 2004
Brian Kelsay wrote:
> I don't recall exactly what came out first. Knoppix definitely came after DemoLinux, which was
slow as hell. But I don't recall when Suse came out w/ their Live CD. Some Suse user know the
history?
>
You could run slackware live off of a CD in 1995, iirc. But, yeah, on a
i486 it was slow as hell, too. Everything was, but it screamed compared
to Windoze.
I remember the all night kernel compiles... "make vmlinuz" and see if it
puked out in the morning. Kernel sources were 1 megabyte! Huge!
Regards,
-Don "geezer"
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