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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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3.3 was my first love. Old enough to make me old, without being old enough to be cool.
Only thing I could find that’d easily let you install into 3meg of ram. It said you needed 4, but would let you use a second floppy drive instead of loading the first disk into ram.