This year, I celebrate 30 years as a Linux user. I fondly remember downloading around 30 diskettes with gzipped tarfiles on them. The distribution was called SLS. After installing, there was no X. I had to compile X11R5 myself to support my bleeding edge S3 graphics card, plugged into a «VESA local bus».

Calling up my university with a modem and transferring files using sz. IP and SLIP/PPP came soon after. Compiling my first kernel, 0.99.10.

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