Gregory's Server@justine that said, I think that some nostalgia for technologies deeply rooted in the computer history we traveled thru is involved. While the systemd world is boring. BSD has a retrocomputing taste that we are enjoying much, for sure. Reading the handbook reminds me of my first Linux install, using the dozens of 3.5in floppies rawriten from images provided in cdrom in magazines. After the fifth disk you discovered floppy corrupted. All this was documented in txt files like the BSD handbook. And it felt great to discover and setup something new. The kernel just was so primitive, but our CPUs too. It was pure joy.
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@EnigmaRotor @justine same here. i think it was Slackware on a coverdisc, too. And it was like BSD said "hello, old friend. Long time no see"... @justine and god, having a mainframe-like prompt in my PC was a wonderful achievement. During this period my dad had a hpux server at work (not knowing how to use it, he was an accountant with no great training, yet was curious) it was running a Pick-system based emulation for a business app. But when I visited him there, I starred at these CRT terminals with some Unix prompt in a great orange color … and I knew I would love this « login: » line for the rest of my life. |
@justine Iin France we had some publications like Login or Dream which provided a cdrom. Can’t remember the distrib it was, maybe one of the first Slackware. Well, i will dig the web to find my first distribution. Found : Yes was a vanilla Slackware because I remember the darkstar host name !,