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Slackware was my first personal OS back in 1996. Built a PC for college, and instead of Windows, I got slackware floppies free from the school. Took me 2 weeks to install. Never got the sound card to work.

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Yes I must have wasted entire days of my life messing around with OSS and ALSA over and over again when you add it all up, lol

Very nice! Was there a reason your school gave out Slackware installer floppies? Was it required for a class? Or through a student organization? And if you recall, were you running a Creative SoundBlaster? Ad Lib? Gravis ultrasound?

One of the professors were giving them out. Not a class requirement as we all had school Unix login. Remember pine? I don’t remember the sound card anymore. It was pentium and expensive as hell. Spent all my money earned during summer construction. Like $2K.

I might be mistaken, I think I had a CD rom instead of floppies.

Maybe a boot floppy and then a CD?

Pine finally dropped the weird custom license and became Alpine which I used a few days ago to read my panix.com email

I surely do remeber pine, using it from ambar and green phosphor terminals to check on mails from our lab assignments, which were mostly the only use I had for emails at the time.

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