On This Day in Linux 1995-06-16

Last updated Jan 16, 2023 Edit Source

This is the first entry from my notebook. I started using Linux in late 1991, not long after Linus Torvalds announced it. I must have realised, after a while, that keeping a Changelog was important. Being able to see what changes you made and if they broke some other software, at least you had a chance of figuring out what had caused the issue. You could say this was an early form of change management. So below is first the entry written in my A4, hard back, ruled notebook.

Installed Slackware 2.3.0

Slackware was a popular distribution back in the day, in fact there was probably only around 4 or 5 distributions to choose from. I recall SLS Softlanding Linux System was the first distro I installed. Rather peversely, I still have the Slackware 3.5" floppy disks in my archive.