Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.tcpreset.net!newsgate.tebibyte.org!.POSTED.251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net!Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: All the problems of French Philsophy... Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 22:56:59 +0200 Organization: Tebibyte_Retro_Gaming Message-ID: References: <10tt5f1$18b93$7@dont-email.me> <87y0hp24vo.fsf@atr2.ath.cx> <10tvjc0$232hs$1@dont-email.me> <10u11eg$2faiu$1@dont-email.me> <10u2t5e$30sf7$1@dont-email.me> <4mkgdmxa55.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mailgate.tebibyte.org; posting-host="251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net:79.150.114.251"; logging-data="28028"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@tebibyte.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86674 On 2026-05-14 20:38, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2026-05-14, Carlos E.R. wrote: > >> On 2026-05-14 00:15, Nuno Silva wrote: >> >>> On 2026-05-13, rbowman wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 12 May 2026 22:15:58 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: >>>> >>>>> I can only envy the depth of your experience. Indeed and how >>>>> did the installation go if you can dredge that up from your memory? >>>> >>>> Very smoothly compared to Slackware's many many diskettes. People claim >>>> Ubuntu is what popularized Linux but the only thing they did was mail out >>>> free CDs. You didn't have to buy a box set or a magazine or book with a CD >>>> in it. The 1998 Sams 'Red Hat Linux Unleashed' came with a long gone CD. >>> >>> I think I saw some magazines with discs of Linux-based systems on >>> shelves some years before I saw Ubuntu shipped install media for free, >>> I'd say these magazines probably did more to popularize it, or at least >>> make it known. >> >> According to Google, Ubuntu initial release was on 2004. >> >> On the other hand, I got magazines with Linux CDs on the summer of 1998. > > When I decided to try Linux, I went to the local bookstore, flipped > through the various Linux books, and chose the one I liked best, > which happened to be by Patrick Volkerding. It contained a CD for > Slackware 3.5; a bit of searching suggests it came out in 1998. > (Wow, how time flies...) > Right, I just remembered I got a "Linux Unleashed, the comprehensive solution!", third edition, Byt Tim Parker, SAMS. I see inside an empty CD envelope. Copyright 1998. Oh! There is another CD envelope on the back cover (inside). Good quality paper, has not yellowed. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;