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Getting X to work required mucking about with a textfile where you specified parameters directing the operation of the electron gun inside a CRT monitor that were so down to the metal, that you could create your own resolution or even blow up your monitor.
Slackware.
Me too, on floppy disks, kernel 2.0.something… I remember I struggled to get X11 running, so I tried with redhat next
Getting X to work required mucking about with a textfile where you specified parameters directing the operation of the electron gun inside a CRT monitor that were so down to the metal, that you could create your own resolution or even blow up your monitor.
Ah, those were the days ;)
Same. The year was 1997…