Subj : Linux, networking, etc.
To : NELGIN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon Jul 21 2025 10:14 am
> no idea about duel bootings and the like at the time and Remember I was stuch
> with a "LI" something or other at the top. Another ago and LILO eventually ran
> and booted up, slowly, on my 486dx66 with 4mb ram. I eventually updated the
> system to a 486DX4-120 which I sent to the US before my immigration to be used
> for an IRC server in Toledo.
LOL, I had forgot about getting stuck with the "LI" on the screen and the
boot hanging. That was a frustration I had forgotten. ;)
> Anyway, I friend got me to try NetBSD and I used that for a while but I always
> had problems updating and getting library problems. I picked up a copy of
> Mandrake (to be Mandriva) at a local Half Price Books.
I tried Mandrake c2000. The install process went like a breeze, and it was
able to identify my video card -- the test graphic looked perfect.
Unfortunately, whatever the install process ID'ed it as was not passed onto
the installed OS. I eventually had to give that up and tried Correl (sp?)
linux, which worked well but was no longer being updated or maintained.
Someone told me about libranet linux, another debian derivative. It worked
great. Unfortunately, the maintainer passed and it also became
unmaintained. I migrated from that to debian and have stuck with it since.
> I did play with Yellowdog on a Mac G4 at work for a while, and also had the
> misfortune to come across zOS. I was sent on a 4 day course because the compan
> might want to use it. They didn't. They were Nortel and went belly up.
zOS is the IBM mainframe OS system. I was an IBM mainframe user, and COBOL
programmer, for over 25 years but spent little time interfacing with the OS
itself, so I cannot say much about it.
Before that, I spent a couple of years sometimes using an AS/400. I never
knew what OS those ran. Time to do some curiousity research.
> Interesting thing about Linux was that it had SCO Compatability. It would run
> MicroFocus Cobol and would run our product. I have no idea if it can still do
> that.
IIRC, wasn't that what caused SCO to eventually try to sue linux, possibly
in an effort to take it over?
> A nice walk down memory lane. I think this is pretty much documented elsewhere
> maybe I should just create a webpage and point to it eveytime this sort of
> thing comes up.
That'd be handy. With my luck, I'd go to the trouble of creating the page
only to never have the topic come up again. ;)
