I remember when the options if you didn't want to download the Linux kernel and build it on, say, Minix yourself were Yggdrasil and the Soft Landing System. The first Linux distro I used full time though was RHL 5.0 or so, and we configured and built that 2.0.x kernel for every hardware model we used.

Loadable modules save soooo much time in this industry.

I never played with yggdrasil, but I did poke at sls for a bit out of curiosity

remember when yum was the yellowdog updater?

I have a yellowdog linux polo

and at one point had a helixcode tshirt

but I think that got destroyed at some point

OH! I still have helix monkeys!

(my high school lug had IBM do a Linux on s390 presentation)

in like 2000

old men sharing war stories 🏃

honestly, I miss the old days of linuxworld expo and randomly stumbling into people like miguel de icaza before anyone knew who he or gnome was and such

I'm not that old

I just got started damned young

I learned linux at 14

Same. But 14 was 2001 :)

only 5 years 🙂

I remember also getting corel linux with a magazine

was really tempting after struggling with redhat installers

In 1998, I ran a linux user group and I remember (vaguely) a local expo of some sort where we had a table and we demoed VMware when they were still a scrappy little startup that nobody had ever heard of, building a thing that no home users understood.

you did what when

how old are you?

"so that's a thing to run windows apps? No, it's running windows? What do you mean, like it's running windows in a window? How does that work?"

I graduated high school in 94

ha

I was running a LUG in 2000...

was born in 93

also while everybody is here, who wants to review https://github.com/voxpupuli/facterdb/pull/329

sure

when we do Vox business cards, Tim's secondary title will be "hey, while you're here, you wanna review a PR?"