Even a mention of Slackware in 1992 
In the spring of 1994 we felt that Linux was done. Finished. Nothing more to add. One could use Linux to compile itself, to read Usenet, and run many copies of the xeyes program at once.
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Cool! I haven’t used Linux, BSD, and UNIX as long as you have. I’ve enjoyed tinkering with this stuff since August 2002. Back then I was still a classroom teacher and I asked the school district IT department if they would donate an old PC that I could experiment on. My first Linux PC was a junker with 32 MB RAM, a P150, and a dial-up modem. I got the book Linux for Dummies which came with an obscure distro Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. I also built a DIY classroom computer lab that had 21 PCs running Windows 2000 and Debian 4.0. The lab PCs were all donated from parents and local businesses. After that I moved on to Red Hat and a lot of other distros. These days I mostly use Slackware and I manage my wife’s Debian laptop.
I found this site to be mostly useful in setting up Slackware on my T14 Thinkpad. The site mentions Slackware using the huge kernel which is no longer the case on Slackware-current. It does a good job with partitioning and kernel upgrades. https://ratfactor.com/slackware/new-computer
I think it was late 1998 early 1999 we were given RadHat 5 CDs at an ISP conference we attended in Kelowna.
A teacher had set up a web/mail server with RedHat on a 56K dialup at a remore reserve and then left. Used to have to fix it back around 2000 mostly just an fdisk and reboot.
Remember when Ubuntu would send you free CDs? We’d get a box of 12 to our store every update.
I think we gave away 3 in all those years.
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I installed LibreOffice today for someone and discovered it has an entirely new startup interface.
I had to move my eyeballs and comprehend Grade 4 Engllsh to work out where Options-General-Load/Save was and get this, it was already set to docx xlsx and pptx…
F*ck Microsoft!
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