Comments on: Slackware finally goes to Patreon https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/08/19/slackware-finally-goes-to-patreon/ Fun with Virtualization Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:33:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/08/19/slackware-finally-goes-to-patreon/comment-page-1/#comment-223569 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 12:33:50 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9717#comment-223569 In reply to Tom.

I remember using 5 1/4″ disks as they were so much cheaper back in the day. I think I was buying them bulk 100 @ 0.10 each?

when hex editing the disks its when I found out I had a boot sector virus. Oh happy days. I didn’t get a CD-ROM until late 93 or early 94. I got lucky Tiger Direct’s warehouse in Miami was being downsized and they cleared out all their old crap and I picked up a NEC Intersect-25 for something insanely cheap, along with an 8bit SCSI controller. The drive was slower than crap, as the SCSI card was PIO driven, and single speed, but wow so much nicer to finally not have to swap floppies by then, but I was SLS / Slackware back then, and I’d just upgrade manually. I didn’t distro jump back then as it seemed silly, and all too easy to rebuild and update libc/libm/gcc/binutils/kernel…

]]> By: Tom https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/08/19/slackware-finally-goes-to-patreon/comment-page-1/#comment-223429 Wed, 04 Sep 2019 20:41:01 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9717#comment-223429 I started with SLS as well. When Slackware came out, fixing the permissions on directories that SLS wouldn’t, it was off and running. There were some grumbles about Slackware just copying the same packaging and file layout, but it met the licence requirements.

I was on floppies as I didn’t have a CD. You could use 5.25 or 3.5 floppies for awhile. I think you might have been able to use 360k vs 1.2mb 5.25 as well.

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