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Can’t wait for Linux 8.1 Home Edition
Knoppix. Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
That’s how I started using Linux — big book with CD, I think it was “RedHat Linux Secrets 5.4” or something. 2.0 or 2.2 kernel.
Honestly, it was fantastic. And almost all of it is still relevant today. (Some of the stuff on xfree86 and the chap/pap stuff not so much.)
But it gave a really solid (IMHO) intro to a Linux/*NIX system, a solid overview of coreutils, etc. And while LILO has been long replaced, and afaik
/sysdidn’t exist at the time, it formed a good foundation.I’ll refrain from commenting on any init system changes that have taken place since then.
I started with a book too. But it was 1996, and the distro was Yggdrasil, and the book was a printout of all the man pages. I used it for a Prolog programming course, so that I didn’t have to go to the university and use their computers. Of course, then I discovered the joys of different flavors of Prolog.
I’ve been wanting to get an old book like this and go through the install process of some OG linux just for the learning experience.
You want to learn… Suffering?
With Slackware, you could probably just follow it step by step.
I had this book… Threw it out of years ago because every time I moved house, it was a pain to pack and deal with lots of boxes of geeky books.
Besides, most of it is outdated now. New users probably should learn systemd rather than startup scripts.
I was at a used bookshop the other day and found the same Caldera Open Linux 2.2 book and cd that I used to install my first linux distro on a pc. Man that was exciting!
Just need to find a CD reader, and you are golden. 🤪
people actually, DONT own one?
