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		SemiNormal on Sept 17, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Linux Distributions of 1992 My first was Slackware. Back when they would mail you a CD of the distro for free.

sillystuff on Sept 17, 2021 [–]

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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