[gobolinux-users] Linux memories (AKA Linux 0.10)

[MLA-Gobo]

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 10:44, Carlo Calica wrote:
> When did others catch the Linux bug?
    My first encounter with Linux was back in late 1996, when a friend boasted 
that he had just recompiled his kernel to include sound support while drunk. 
As I recall, he ran xearth on his desktop. In late 1997, I tried and failed 
to get Linux installed on my laptop (which was already about five years old 
at the time, so I wasn't surprised). Finally, when I bought a new laptop in 
February of 1999, I successfully installed RH 5.2 with kernel 2.0.something.
    Ah, those early days. :) I remember compiling and recompiling 
Enlightenment, which I ran for about a year and a half (although I flirted 
briefly with Afterstep, FVWM95, and even GNOME, among others). I switched 
over to KDE sometime in late 2000 (when KDE 2.0 was released), and haven't 
had a reason to change since.
    :Peter