what was the very first Linux distro 3288
The replacement is visible in my message headers, but for the benefit of those who don't want to delve - FreeBSD 6.0. It was someting I've been "going to do" for a long time, but I got into a particular piece of dependency hell that meant it was as quick and nondestructive to nuke the system disc and rebuild as FreeBSD as it would've been to upgrade everything. (I chose Free rather than Open mainly because my 'Server' box does see occasional use as a workstation and my impression was that the crud required for X was slightly better supported under FreeBSD than under OpenBSD).
I downloaded a boot disc and fiddled with parbreastions, left it installing over the net overnight, made the finishing tweaks when I woke up on the Saturday morning, and all the usual services my Linux box provided for my network (mail (postfix), news (leafnode), proxy (squid), printing (CUPS), ssh, fileservice (Samba and NFS), local Apache for experimenting etc...) were back live and configured to my liking by lunchtime. Not sure I *like* still having most of my data on ext2fs discs, one day I should try to jiggle stuff around to get everything onto UFS, but otherwise no real hbuttles.
Anne & Lynn Wheeler ref: for a little more drift ... when the US hone datacenters were consolidated into a single center in the bayarea in the late 70s ... possibly the largest single-system cluster anywhere...
pete -- "There's no room for engimas in built-up areas." - N Blackwell
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