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What a coincidence. Just the other day I was going to take a trip down memory lane and fire up a few VMs of my first Linux distributions. Then I realized Suse 7.3 (I had a physical box set) wasn’t freely available in ISO format anywhere. Bummer.

Still going to hunt down an early Slackware ISO and might try the first versions of Fedora and Ubuntu again.

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Anyone remember Yggdrasil Linux?

The version I tried was bundled with the "Linux Bible" book

Yes, being sold via the Walnut Creek CD-ROMs.

Soft Landing Linux on a million floppy disks?

Boy are you guys sending me down memory lane. I remember all of these.

It was my first exposure to linux; the 1994 version.

Here you go:

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/

The ISOs on that mirror go back to 12.0 but you can roll your own using the older releases.

I think Suse came from Slackware originally.

Yes. IIRC the very first version was basically a german translation of Slackware.

Yes, SUSE indeed started as a modified version of Slackware. For a long time, SUSE's package categories names were based on Slackware's disk sets names (even after rebasing away from Slackware). Later, SUSE hired the author of the Jurix distribution and rebased on top of that. SUSE and Jurix were both from Germany.

History of Jurix: http://linux2.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/distribut...

SUSE had a stronghold in the nineties in Europe. E.g. here in The Netherlands, many bookshops would cary SUSE Linux boxes.

In Norway as well, at least in academia - I remember seeing SUSE boxes in the bookstores at both the Norwegian University of Technology and Science and the University of Bergen - this would have been in 1996-1998 or so.

I thought it was spawned off Red Hat. What is the story behind Suse's use of RPM?

Redhat open sourced rpm. SuSE adopted it because they saw the benefits.

Try 6.1 noob :)

try 5.3 . The old good YaST rulez

Yast was never good. I still have nightmares of it happily overwriting and destroying my configuration on several occasions. No warnings shown or questions asked.

Oh, memories! Does Suse still use yast or did they replace it?

Oh, it's still there, we just never use it. Or mention it in polite company.

openSUSE still "uses" YaST, as in, if you choose to change something via YaST, it will happily do so. You can also simply install/uninstall various components. It also happily integrates with changes made elsewhere (e.g. the "Firewall"-module wraps around firewalld nowadays, which you can influence either via YaST or firewall-cmd etc.).

I sometimes use the Package Management part of it, since searching for something is sometimes quite nice in it. That said, I don't use it for installing software or doing updates etc., so you can absolutely use e.g. zypper & YaST side-by-side.

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