From 872f2f6a808358a424032fa255bc08fa47839843 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DarkSun Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 01:04:50 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] =?UTF-8?q?=E9=80=89=E9=A2=98:=2020191108=20My=20Linux?= =?UTF-8?q?=20story:=20Learning=20Linux=20in=20the=2090s?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit sources/tech/20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md --- ... 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But I remember that year very clearly. I was a sophomore in high school in the middle of Kansas, and it was the start of my journey into free and open source software (FOSS). + +I'm getting ahead of myself here. I was interested in computers even before 1996. I was born and raised on my family's first Apple ][e, followed many years later by the IBM Personal System/2. (Yes, there were definitely some generational skips along the way.) The IBM PS/2 had a very exciting feature: a 1200 baud Hayes modem. + +I don't remember how, but early on, I got the phone number of a local [BBS][2]. Once I dialed into it, I could get a list of other BBSes in the local area, and my adventure into networked computing began. + +In 1995, the people [lucky enough][3] to have a home internet connection spent less than 30 minutes a month using it. That internet was nothing like our modern services that operate over satellite, fiber, CATV coax, or any version of copper lines. Most homes dialed in with a modem, which tied up their phone line. (This was also long before cellphones were pervasive, and most people had just one home phone line.) I don't think there were many independent internet service providers (ISPs) back then, although that may have depended upon where you were located, so most people got service from a handful of big names, including America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy. + +And the service you did get was very slow; even at dial-up's peak evolution at 56K, you could only expect to get a maximum of about 3.5 Kbps. If you wanted to try Linux, downloading a 200MB to 800MB ISO image or (more realistically) a disk image set was a dedication to time, determination, and lack of phone usage. + +I went with the easier route: In 1996, I ordered a "tri-Linux" CD set from a major Linux distributor. These tri-Linux disks provided three distributions; mine included Debian 1.1 (the first stable release of Debian), Red Hat Linux 3.0.3, and Slackware 3.1 (nicknamed Slackware '96). As I recall, the discs were purchased from an online store called [Linux Systems Labs][4]. The online store doesn't exist now, but in the 90s and early 00s, such distributors were common. And so were multi-disc sets of Linux. This one's from 1998 but gives you an idea of what they involved: + +![A tri-linux CD set][5] + +![A tri-linux CD set][6] + +On a fateful day in the summer of 1996, while living in a new and relatively rural city in Kansas, I made my first attempt at installing and working with Linux. Throughout the summer of '96, I tried all three distributions on that tri-Linux CD set. They all ran beautifully on my mom's older Pentium 75MHz computer. + +I ended up choosing [Slackware][7] 3.1 as my preferred distribution, probably more because of the terminal's appearance than the other, more important reasons one should consider before deciding on a distribution. + +I was up and running. I was connecting to an "off-brand" ISP (a local provider in the area), dialing in on my family's second phone line (ordered to accommodate all my internet use). I was in heaven. I had a dual-boot (Microsoft Windows 95 and Slackware 3.1) computer that worked wonderfully. I was still dialing into the BBSes that I knew and loved and playing online BBS games like Trade Wars, Usurper, and Legend of the Red Dragon. + +I can remember spending days upon days of time in #Linux on EFNet (IRC), helping other users answer their Linux questions and interacting with the moderation crew. + +More than 20 years after taking my first swing at using the Linux OS at home, I am now entering my fifth year as a consultant for Red Hat, still using Linux (now Fedora) as my daily driver, and still on IRC helping people looking to use Linux. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://opensource.com/article/19/11/learning-linux-90s + +作者：[Mike Harris][a] +选题：[lujun9972][b] +译者：[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对：[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译，[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://opensource.com/users/mharris +[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972 +[1]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/styles/image-full-size/public/lead-images/bus-cloud.png?itok=vz0PIDDS (Sky with clouds and grass) +[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system +[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage#Internet_users +[4]: https://web.archive.org/web/19961221003003/http://lsl.com/ +[5]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/20191026_142009.jpg (A tri-linux CD set) +[6]: https://opensource.com/sites/default/files/20191026_142020.jpg (A tri-linux CD set) +[7]: http://slackware.com From 0961ec580a2df755ff3af4699262c0efb16b14da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Xingyu.Wang" Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:23:37 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Rename sources/tech/20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md to sources/talk/20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md --- .../20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md | 0 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) rename sources/{tech => talk}/20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md (100%) diff --git a/sources/tech/20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md b/sources/talk/20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md similarity index 100% rename from sources/tech/20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md rename to sources/talk/20191108 My Linux story- Learning Linux in the 90s.md