| grantbow | nhaines_: time traveling from 1995? XFree86 3.1 and Linux 1.2 were current in about 1995 according to wikipedia. | 01:29 |
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| nhaines_ | grantbow: time travelling from November 1995! | 04:38 |
| === nhaines_ is now known as nhaines | ||
| nhaines | Trying to get Debian "1.0" up and running. And by "running" I mean network support. | 04:46 |
| pleia2 | nhaines: haha | 05:04 |
| nhaines | pleia2: Ironically, this was my first experience with Linux. It was so annoying I tried Red Hat 2.1 instead. | 05:12 |
| nhaines | Of course, Debian 1.0 was actually 0.93R6, which InfoMagic had archived in the middle of the a.out to ELF transition. The first stable release of Debian had to be called 1.1. | 05:13 |
| pleia2 | nice | 05:13 |
| pleia2 | I came late to the party, never even saw linux until 1999 | 05:14 |
| pleia2 | took until 2001 to install redhat 7.2 on one of my own systems | 05:14 |
| nhaines | My friend from school gave me this (infamous!) 5 CD set. He was an engineer. | 05:14 |
| pleia2 | :) | 05:14 |
| Torikun | the good old days | 05:15 |
| nhaines | He also had OS/2, which was cool but it was a 40MB install and I only had an 80MB hard drive, so I couldn't swing that one. | 05:15 |
| pleia2 | hehe | 05:15 |
| pleia2 | Torikun: actually, not so much | 05:15 |
| nhaines | Still, 2MB of RAM and enough swap will even get you X. Although eventually I got 6MB on my 33MHz 386SX. I kind of wish I'd saved the computer during the last move. It still worked. | 05:16 |
| nhaines | Torikun: only because they're old. ;) | 05:16 |
| pleia2 | I like to think there are much more interesting problems to solve when you don't need to figure out how to get networking and xorg working ;) | 05:16 |
| * Torikun started with RedHat 5.0 | 05:16 | |
| nhaines | pleia2: I had this pinned to my cubicle for at least half a year: http://xkcd.com/963/ | 05:17 |
| darthrobot | Title: [xkcd: X11] | 05:17 |
| pleia2 | haha | 05:18 |
| Torikun | hahahaah | 05:18 |
| nhaines | Of course, I didn't have a multisync monitor in those days (no one did) so the risk of letting the magic smoke out from a bad sync line in /etc/X11/X86Config was very real. At the time I never trusted a file without an extension anyway. :P | 05:19 |
| nhaines | Frankly, I'm just happy Debian 0.93R6 came with pico. | 05:20 |
| pleia2 | was pico free then or did they just not care at that time? | 05:21 |
| nhaines | If anyone at Canonical still cared about the bitmapped console Ubuntu font then I'd really have fun with Debian 0.93R6. :( | 05:21 |
| nhaines | pleia2: just didn't care at the time. | 05:21 |
| nhaines | pine and pico are both there. | 05:22 |
| pleia2 | pine hung around for a long time | 05:22 |
| pleia2 | I remember the switch to alpine | 05:22 |
| pleia2 | but I had long stopped using it because mutt <3 | 05:22 |
| Torikun | awwww alpine | 05:22 |
| nhaines | I wasn't around for it, and not particularly interested when I got back into Linux. But I've always been tempted! | 05:22 |
| Torikun | alpine is back ! | 05:22 |
| nhaines | For two years, pine was how I read my email. | 05:23 |
| Torikun | its realpine now | 05:23 |
| Torikun | or this year, back to alpine lol | 05:23 |
| Torikun | confusing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_(email_client) | 05:24 |
| darthrobot | [404] Title: [Alpine (email client - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] | 05:24 |
| pleia2 | hmm, once slice of pizza at a meetup isn't really doing it for me dinner-wise | 05:24 |
| nhaines | pleia2: better ask for extra pepperoni. | 05:24 |
| * pleia2 doesn't eat pork | 05:24 | |
| pleia2 | there was one veggie pizza that I snagged a slice of though :) | 05:25 |
| nhaines | but... but... bacon! | 05:25 |
| pleia2 | I miss pepperoni more than bacon | 05:25 |
| nhaines | Besides, I thought pepperoni was beef. | 05:25 |
| pleia2 | nope | 05:25 |
| pleia2 | like most sausage, it's pork :\ | 05:25 |
| pleia2 | (sometimes pork and beef) | 05:25 |
| pleia2 | I quite like turkey bacon, but it's hard to find replacement pepperoni for a pizza | 05:26 |
| nhaines | I'm not a fan of turkey bacon. I mean, I'll eat it, but it's not the same. | 05:27 |
| pleia2 | no, it's not the same | 05:27 |
| nhaines | Isn't there some kind of vegan pepperoni? | 05:27 |
| pleia2 | boca used to make a vegan pepperoni pizza that was good, but I never found the pepperoni by itself | 05:28 |
| pleia2 | actually, vegetarian | 05:28 |
| pleia2 | once you go vegan you have no cheese on your pizza and that's just crazy talk | 05:28 |
| nhaines | I had that once. It was tasty but different. | 05:30 |
| pleia2 | it's a big thing in pennsylvania "tomato pie" | 05:30 |
| * pleia2 maintains that they forgot the cheese | 05:30 | |
| nhaines | Oh, no... this had some kind of vegan cheese. Anna said to think of it as a "spread" and not as "fake cheese". | 05:31 |
| pleia2 | ah :) | 05:32 |
| nhaines | It was good, but it wasn't cheese. :) | 05:34 |
| * pleia2 seeks snacks | 05:36 | |
| nhaines | If I could have gotten ahold of a DEC VT-520 I would. | 05:46 |
| nhaines | But the people on CL and eBay who want $200 for their "as-is" 386s with no hard drive can.... well, let's just say they can keep them. :P | 05:46 |
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