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I came across slackware when I was 10 years old on an Indian computer magazine cd, pcquest.

I ran into a ton of issues installing sound cards, running X11 on a cyrix mediaGX card. And learned how to compile kernels, ask questions on mailing lists and debug C programs.

Truly the start of my serious engineering career haha.

Loved seeing how others have similar experiences and are all on hn. Small world.

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A small world indeed! I'm in the process of rebooting my engineering career and hoping forcing myself to use Slackware may help in a small way!

Back in 2015, I worked with Pentium III -class Cyrix processors on a legacy but still supported and in-production embedded system released in the mid 2000s AFAIK. But I never came across a Cyrix-based consumer PC or laptop (growing up in Southern California). Were Cyrix processors common on consumer PCs in India?

yeah! a lot of compaq presario machines came with cyrix mediagx with embedded graphics cards.

oh man, i got mandrake (or maybe redhat?) from pcquest in like 1998 and what a ride that was. The monthly pcquest drop was always a monumental event to my 12yo self.

haha did we know each other?!

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