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SLS Linux was my first distro. It was probably early 1993 when I first installed it, on a 386SX/20 with 3 megs of RAM. I think it was on 12 or 16 floppies.

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I ordered a set of SLS floppies from some random person I learned about via Usenet news groups (comp.os.minix and later comp.os.linux). It used Linux kernel version 0.99pl12 or thereabouts.

I had previously been using Coherent Unix (with the enormous compendium in a thick book).

I was first setting up my home NFS server using NE2000 Ethernet cards to try all that out.

This was all run on a Gateway 386 @ 25MHz which started with 4MB of RAM.

I also used Coherent for a bit. Its documentation was excellent! I remember the book with the shell on the cover: http://gunkies.org/wiki/File:Coherent_4_print_ad.jpg

My first was Slackware. Back when they would mail you a CD of the distro for free.

Wish I had known about that back then. I spent hours in a 24 hour access university computer lab, one night in '93, downloading Slack to floppies.

Never looked back. '93 was the year of the GNU/Linux desktop for me.

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