See my usage was continuous.  My alternative to win95 was Slackware96, 
which i used on servers and desktop machines.  Where I wandered back to 
windows on the desktop, I'd always have a linux box at my disposal 
connected elsewhere either at ASU or serving as a router/gateway.

--sean

Technomage wrote:

> I think I got y'all beat then.
> 
> I actually started using linux experimentally with kernel 0.99 on a 486 DX-100 
> back when they introducedit to the net.....
> 
> I found it more than a match for winblows 95. However, due to the lack of 
> technology support at the time, I wasn't able to continue its use until I 
> re-acquired it as redhat 5.2 with a speech synth support on my amd k6-2/350.
> 
> Now if the media consortium's would just back off and realize that linux is 
> here to stay, we might have multimedia legally on linux without all the 
> hassles we have now (like software patents, etc).
> 
> On Wednesday 03 August 2005 12:21, Sean Horan wrote:
> 
>>Wow, you've got me beat--my first kernel was 1.2.8 on a Pentium 90 w/ 16
>>  MB.   I don't think I could get even a single apache process going
>>with that horsepower now.
>>
>>It handily outperformed the Pentium 166 running NT with I think 32 or 64
>>MB the department bought a couple years after.
>>
>>Despite all this, I think i've got the best combination of age and
>>earliest kernel version.  Ph33r!  :D
>>
>>--sean
>>
>>--
>>
>>Francois, Jean (J.L.) wrote:
>>
>>>ORIG>And for the record, my first Linux server that ran that sparkly 2.2
>>>ORIG>kernel is still running, same case and all, still a K6-2
>>>ORIG>400, but Gentoo
>>>ORIG>now, and several deceased drives later (its original drive
>>>ORIG>just started
>>>ORIG>to die too, a whopping 13Gb).
>>>ORIG>
>>>ORIG>-Bryce
>>>
>>>Bah!
>>>
>>>My first Kernel was 1.0.9 on a 386-33 with 8MB of RAM.
>>>I ran that until the hard drive died and "forced" an
>>>upgrade to the latest kernel at the time...1.1.18
>>>
>>>So using 1x1x18 = 18 should qualify me :)
>>>
>>>--
>>>JLF Sends...
>>>Server Engineering/EE
>>>
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