Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux Mint may make fewer releases a year Date: 15 Feb 2026 19:16:23 GMT Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <20260212090830.00007b03@gmail.com> <10msg39$3vqvf$6@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HpzIRdKxqzA9m0bL+a7K2wO7J3F81P7+bo7XlBSu/u5fLBvOJz Cancel-Lock: sha1:467vR6UuTf8z3I7ZzpE6QZFV3pY= sha256:yd4/uYYi4UMVsWDFmV4AsglBKwyk7LdA4ZOCbq1wlVs= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82032 On Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:01:28 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > Anyway, my first distro was the old RedHat 6. Then I bought a no-name > laptop with Windows NT on it, and used that for awhile. Then I tried to > install RedHat. Partway through the screen would blank and a weird glow > would appear. (I later learned it was some issue with the AMD K6 CPU.) My first was Slackware. First I downloaded a couple of boxes of floppies worth over dialup and then painfully assembled them. I forget what the donor box was. iirc the basic OS was under 20 floppies but if you wanted gcc, build_tools, and other pieces of a working system it was over 30. I think the second time around it was Mandrake from a shrink-wrapped box. Much more pleasant experience. Mandrake was sort of the Ubuntu of its day.