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What was your first distro? (piefed.world)
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Mine was Knoppix because back in the day Libraries used to let you borrow all sorts of computer software and games and that's what they had and I was stuck on dialup lol

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[–] djehuti@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Downloading a kernel source tarball, compiling it on Minix and writing a Lilo boot sector. Sort of an early LFS.