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Linux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the world (www.xda-developers.com)
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[โ€“] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

TBF, in 1992 you might have had a hard time getting slackware at all since it was officially released in 1993.

However, when I first used it around 1997, it was just a stack of floppies, no CD needed.

[โ€“] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That's painful. I had a proper purchased slackware 3.1 CD in 1997.

I tried a two-diskette non-distro from "so much shareware 2". I think it was minted in 1993 and labelled Linux 0.99b