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fermigier 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Dark Star at 50: How a micro-budget student film c...

My first reasonably useful Linux computer was called "darkstar" because it was the default on Slackware.

contingencies 9 months ago | [–]

Came to post the same. Slackware 3, Kernel 2.x IIRC. Installation from floppies so slow you could read the package descriptions during unarchiving. Always laughed reading "bison - a parser generator in the style of yacc". Awesome.

noisy_boy 9 months ago | [–]

I have taken to giving that name to my main computer.

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