Raiford's Journal: I knew Linus's OS before he was a Superstar

It was late 1993 and I wanted my 486/66 Mhz box at home to have some resemblance to the mighty Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo (MIPS R4000) I had sitting on my desk at work. I had heard rumor of something called "Linux" that was a unix-like OS that would run X and allow you to compile quite a number of unix apps. So I downloaded version 0.99 pl14 from what was then Sunsite. I was transformed and so was my 486. Soon a network grew in my bedroom on Munn Rd in Cleveland. The 486 first had the company of a Packard Bell Pentium my second Linux box (although it never had the same spot in my heart as the 486). The next addition was a remanufactured Sparc II running SunOS. A power Mac and an NT box soon followed. By this time the wife at the time moved into the guest bedroom and eventually to Albuquerque.

The following link is an archive of my early Linux odyssey. I really had to smile when I read some of these after almost 10 years.

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