Linux with Bob Young & Michael Johnston - Hackers on Planet Earth - 2600 Magazine
August 13, 1994 - Michael Johnston, owner of Morse Telecommunications, publisher of Slackware Professional, and Bob Young, publisher of New York Unix, owner of ACC Bookstore, talk about Linux.
Johnston talks about discovering Linux in 1993 and approaching Patrick Volkerding, author of the Slackware distribution of Linux, to form a partnership. The purpose was to distribute Slackware, provide documentation and offer technical support.
Questions and Answers
1. Mosaic (7:23).
2. Emulation, DOS and Windows (7:58).
3. Installation (8:51).
4. Chimera, PCI compatibility (9:33).
5. Linux users in room (10:48).
6. Linux distributions (11:12).
7. Compatibility between distributions, upgrades (12:55).
8. Novell's package (13:58). Bob Young provides feedback (14:29).
9. Linux for Power Macintosh (17:49). Bob Young provides feedback (18:05).
10. X Window, video cards, Johnston as system administrator, FrameMaker on Linux (18:56).
11. Infomagic CD (21:04).
12. Apple (21:53).
13. Video cards (22:46).
14. Hardware and Linux (23:40).
15. PCI compatibility (24:30).
15. Linux user group in New York. Bob Young provides feedback (25:31).
16. Hardware requirements (27:46).
17. Slackware 2.0 (28:49).
18. Wine (29:47).
19. Motif (30:52). Bob Young provides feedback (31:39).
20. Friendly user interface (33:37).
21. Tools (35:32).
22. Security (36:27).
23. Slackware Professional, source code (37:31).
24. RAM, hard drives, streams, sockets, System V enhancements (39:04).
25. Linux developers (44:58).
Conclusion
Bob Young concludes the presentation (47:11).
Copyright 1994
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