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Simple question. Which distribution was your introduction?

For me, it was SLS Linux in '92-93, followed relatively naturally by Slackware, which was followed by Redhat.

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I just flashed back to running my first Linux box and struggling to get X Windows working with a miniscule amount of RAM and a swap partition.

I'm thinking I had 1 MB RAM on that machine. I can't wrap my head around that. It just seems impossible. I do remember my wife bought me 16MB RAM as an anniversary present after that, and I was excited by how much easier everything was with so much memory.

I think the 16MB was around $1000.00 at the time.