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  • CD’s?! Ooh La La Mister Fancy French man with the digital media! Back in our day linux came on a plastic 45 inside Fruity Pebbles cereal and it had loose crusty sugar in the grooves that introduced errors in X that meant the screen scrolled like an out-of-whack tv and you had to wait for the prompt to roll by so you could try another resolution that would core dump and spit you back to the A:\ drive and eject the disc into your shins like a frisbee! And that’s the way we liked it!



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    2 months ago

    CD? Hah! Luxury!

    We 'ad to install off floppy disk! And the disks had bad sectors and the drive kept grinding them down! Then we ‘ad to build the kernel wi’ two bare hands! And the only window manager we 'ad would spontaneously delete itself and we’d 'ave to start all over at 2am, half an hour before we finished the last install!