[Wolves] A fun little game for you all :)

[James Turner]

On Sunday 04 Jan 2004 9:11 am, David Goodwin wrote:
> > I found my earliest record as 24th April 1998 on
> > alt.os.linux.slackware at
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=35410
> >300.0%40news9.kcdata.com&rnum=69&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522jono%2Bbacon%2522
> >%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26scoring%3Dd%26start%3D60%26
> >sa%3DN.
> >
> >   Jono
>
> You just beat me...
>
> 1998/09/05
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=35F109F
>F.42C97AC%40weetabix.kc3ltd.co.uk&rnum=71&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2B%2522dof%254
>0i.am%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF
>
> I seem to vaguely remember that X didn't support my graphics card in
> anything other than 600x480 with redhat 5.2 (?) or slackware 3.4/3.6 at
> the time, so I gave up on it until I started CompSci (probably about 4
> weeks later on from the above).
>
> David.

The earliest I can find for myself is 01/06/1998:

http://ftp.cis.nctu.edu.tw/data/armlinux/lists/linux-arm/archive.199806

I'm providing help with the bootloader for ARM Linux, which ironically, I 
never managed to get working on my RiscPC. (My problem was that the console 
driver assumed the presence of at least 1Mb of VRAM (video RAM), which I 
hadn't got, and wouldn't work without it. The problem was still present in 
Linux 2.4.x (x=low number) - might give it a try on 2.6 sometime.)

League table of results so far:

19/03/1998 - Aq (passing off Minix as Linux - should he be disqualified?)
24/04/1998 - Jono Bacon
01/06/1998 - James Turner
05/09/1998 - David Goodwin

Interesting that these are all quite close to each other.

James