xlinux - greetings from the year 1996

It was 1996 as I met linux first time. Now, 13 years later, I stumbled over the old CD again and could not resist temptation to run it.

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It didn't require own partition then. It has been installed in a sub-folder on a plain DOS partition and was launched with a DOS batch file. It wasn't realy usable and suffered on memory shortage, as I had only an old 486 with 8MB of RAM, but it was an enlightening experience, which welded me to the World of UNIX until now.

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login screen
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after startx

If you like play with it too, you can get it either from the net or get it as ready-to-run qemu image here [27M].

UPD: see also creator's (Peter Sieg) github repo for original dist-files and more information

By Dimitri Sokolyuk
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