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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

History

A long time I've used Windows. I started using it when the first Intel 8742 (In 1990) which is pre-installed with MS-DOS 1.0. It is 12 MHz non-clockable and 8 Megs of ram, which though a very powerful thing on that moment. My machine get a lot of virus since I used the diskette as my primary file transferring. Bought a PC-CILLIN anti-virus for MSDOS 1.0 and cost $ 300... A year after that, I moved to Intel Pentium 233 MHz, 32 Mb of ram with a 57K connection. Have installed Windows 3.1 for workstations. A year I have used it, then a very famous BRAIN FOR WORKSTATIONS virus has attacked the entire BMBM workstations.

I also have used QUAD-PRO 100 machine with MMS P5 processor which is 90 MHz clock-speed and 16 MB of RAM.
My friend has encourage me to use the first X11 Window System, for the QUAD-PRO 100 machine. From then, I have interested to the one called "LINUX". I used Linux for my primary OS.

simpleLinux is created around September 2007, using the Slackware dlls. Using ICEWM as default Windowmanager but then I have changed the Slackware dlls to Slax-Core which is more stable. From then, user can easily adding or removing the application packages from the system.

simpleLinux has not being uploaded to the web since 2007. I only installed simpleLinux to a numerous computers. It is installed on my campus as the machines there are so old enough and installed only Windows 95. I wiped out all Windows 95 and installed simpleLinux to about 25 computers there and it is running great.

Then, around year 2008-2009, I created the blog of simpleLinux using Blogger. Soon, I will find a good hosting to host these files or I myself pays for the expensive hosting (MYR 600 a year), however, thanks to Averse dot Net and University of Crete for their hosting...

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