That's also impressive learning the C/C++ and getting the different systems to work functionally together. Almost sounds like a PS5 now lol. Some hackers use PS5's jailbroke along with digital currency mining. Is slackware the flavor of Linux you used along with RedHat? I don't recall hearing slackware. Also why didn't you stick with that ?
Slack was really the first distro at the time came out of Berkley that seemed to be a huge Unix hub at the time. You could download Slackwear if you had a decent network connection or order on CD. It could fit on one CD around 500 meg. Had pretty much all you need to setup as a server it even had a desktop manager. Red Hat came out shortly after with a much better graphical interface out of North Carolina. But Berkley BSD was king in the 80's early 90's and almost everything was developed off of that except for big IBM boxes and some crazy AI machines yep back then.
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The
Berkeley Software Distribution or
Berkeley Standard Distribution[1] (
BSD) is a discontinued
operating system based on
Research Unix, developed and distributed by the
Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the
University of California, Berkeley. Since the original has become obsolete, the term "BSD" is commonly used for its open-source descendants, including
FreeBSD,
OpenBSD,
NetBSD, and
DragonFly BSD.
BSD was initially called
Berkeley Unix because it was based on the
source code of the original
Unix developed at
Bell Labs. In the 1980s, BSD was widely adopted by
workstation vendors in the form of proprietary Unix variants such as
DEC Ultrix and
Sun Microsystems SunOS due to its
permissive licensing and familiarity to many technology company founders and engineers. These proprietary BSD derivatives were largely superseded in the 1990s by UNIX
SVR4 and
OSF/1.
Later releases of BSD provided the basis for several
open-source operating systems including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD,
Darwin and
TrueOS. These, in turn, have been used by proprietary operating systems, including
Apple's
macOS and
iOS, which derived from them
[2] and
Microsoft Windows (since at least
2000 and
XP), which used (at least) part of its TCP/IP code, which was legal.
[3][
better source needed] Code from FreeBSD was also used to create the operating systems for the
PlayStation 5,
[4] PlayStation 4,
[5] PlayStation 3,
[6] PlayStation Vita,
[7] and
Nintendo Switch.
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Mach Kernel was the bases for the most amazing OS at the time BeOS . It could run on anything pretty much and had the best UI and programming libraries. It was multithreaded and multitasked but left hanging without a company to implement it.
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Ran on PC's, Macs, servers , Digital Equipment Alphas an such.