On Monday 02 June 2008 01:34:54 pm AJ ONeal wrote:
> Furthermore, I've been using Linux since Todd's kid wasn't even born
> and when you burned a CD you had to use /dev/scd0. Project utopia
> (now called hald) was barely an embryo (and kernel 2.5 was bleeding
> edge). Yeah, I know what the word "unstable" means because I've been
> around since any odd never version was such a packages.

I'm not running for office but I started using Linux when the stable 
kernel series was 2.2 and my distribution had a 2.0 kernel because 2.2 
was still new.  I saw 2.3, I had to live with the problems in 2.4 and I 
saw the discussions that fixed it all in the 2.5 series.  Back then we 
still had to use XFree86 version 3, KDE was in version 1.0.x and Gnome 
was still in the planning stages.  HAL hadn't even been conceived yet 
because there was no hot-plug support in the kernel yet!  If that 
wasn't enough, we didn't even have Glibc, GCC was in version 2.7.x and 
the entire distribution with *all* RPM's fit in a single CD!  I didn't 
have a CD burner yet because they were too expensive so I don't know 
what the device name would have been.

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Alberto Treviño
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Brigham Young University
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