My first was from a Redhat 5.2 book, some time in the first half of 1999. Alas at the time my SIS6326 wasn't supported in X, at least by default so there was little I could do. In those days internet access wasn't ubiquitous like today -- you could get online, you'd have to use minicom to dial your modem, then background it, then run pppd to get IP up and working, then use lynx to access the internet.
Or dual-boot back to windows, use a browser, find something else to try, then back to linux to try that.
Wasn't really until 6.0 that I started using linux properly, and wasn't until Debian Potato in August 2000 that it became my primary OS.
Or dual-boot back to windows, use a browser, find something else to try, then back to linux to try that.
Wasn't really until 6.0 that I started using linux properly, and wasn't until Debian Potato in August 2000 that it became my primary OS.