Alberto Treviño wrote: > 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.
All the good old days of Redhat 5.0 and fvwm95. To say nothing of the very painful transition from libc to glibc and a.out to elf that RH 5 forced upon us. KDE 1.0 was indeed a quantum leap forward from what was available before. I think it actually was the sole thing that enabled me to jump completely to Linux. Oh and StarOffice 4 or something like that. I remember it required an updated glibc to run, but on RH 5.1 I couldn't get the update rpm to install so I tried removing it with rpm --nodeps... Good times. No actually they were horrid times! -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
