Meeting Notes: SLUG / 8 Oct / InkScape

[Tom Buskey]

On 10/10/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > In the tradition of holiday re-runs, this will be a showing of a
> > video recording of Linus's talk at UNH, circa 1996/1997.
>
> I think this was either 94 or 95.  I distinctly remember that this is
> where those DEC/Red Hat 2.0 CDs were handed out (still got mine:) I
> had been futzing with slackware 3.0 at the time, and could't for the
> life of me, get X to work.  I popped this CD in and "it just worked"...


Didn't Linux come to DEC 1st?  I was with you at this event, remember?  You
had just gotten/were about to get a 486 EISA machine ;-)

They handed out Linux on Alpha bulldog tattoos (have mine somewhere) with
the CDs.

I'm fairly certain it was long before 96/97, since by then I was
> attempting to get X to work on laptops with the NeoMagic chipset
> (Ahhhh, *those* were the days...)
> --
> Seeya,
> Paul
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