That’s great, I didn’t even know that was a service you could get. I remember being really disappointed when I realized that a SIMM would not actually fit in one of my 386s ISA slots 😅

It was such a cool time for CPUs. Going up a generation was like getting a supercomputer. And Intel had those cartridge CPUs…

Honestly it still feels like home. Because I was kind of a moron and figured it would mean less to figure out, I registered darkstar.org (the default domain Slackware came set up with).

I few years later I actually emailed Patrick Volkerding about something and he mentioned it… I felt this strange mix of pride and shame ;-)

Slackware back in the early 90s on a Compaq 386/SX20 💾

Watching something compiling is kinda like the reward for getting it to compile in the first place…

They were great, probably put most of their profits into running a very fast FTP site.

As long as you’re doing it in a VM might as well try the MacOS version. IIRC the OS screen scaling and apples requirements that everything have vector or MIB mapped icons makes for a much nicer experience.

I don’t know if it works on a VM… just fondly remember using the apps on my MacBook 😅

That’s terrible! They helped me fix my system when I decided I was fancy enough to try building a new version of gcc and go off-script a bit.

IIRC I deleted library.so rather that overwriting it. If I hadn’t been running IRC on another terminal already I would have been done for.

PRESS ALT+F4 for ops! 😂

OMG… the showmanship…

Someone-being-bratty-on-IRC: […]
Me: We’re going to take away your internet access if you don’t behave. 
Bratty: Fuck you! You can’t do tha
5 minutes later…
Bratty: How did you do that??? 

The days before Walnut Creak CD-ROM :-) Waiting for FIDO.NET to be synced at midnight… I think that’s what it was called… shit’s getting hazy.

I desperately wanted one of those first BeBoxes or whatever they were called. And one of those little SGI toasters… I even tried to compile SGI’s 3D file manager (demo) from Jurassic Park.

Herp derp… where can I download an OpenGL from… it keeps saying I can’t build it without one 🤤

For that, I’ll spin up a copy…

Holly crap I got lazy. Perfect ;-)

OMG… BOFH! I need to go find those stories now :-)

Spent a week getting the audio driver to work so I could finally figure out how to properly pronounce “Linux…” and I still couldn’t.

Spent like $50 on floppy disks and like 2 days labeling them by hand before printing out the 20 pages of instructions, formatting my hard drive and installing Slackware. Realized I didn’t actually know any unix commands. Paged a friend.

I mean… you know they sold out to Aussie-Adobe like 4 years ago right?

They are currently strip-mining the code so they can learn how to write an application that isn’t an instagram filter tacked onto MS paint… I just made that last part up, hopefully they do something good… but I assume they acquired Serif for the sake of IP protection and not because they were hoping to develop it further. I haven’t seen anything innovative happen for the last few years at least.