Jerome Warnier wrote: > Le lundi 16 avril 2007 _ 07:34 -0500, Bob Tracy a _crit : > [..] > > > The old x86 boxes I mentioned aren't running Debian. No particular > > reason for that other than Debian didn't exist when those machines were > > originally put into service. > Debian does exist since August 1993, what kind of machines are you > talking about? :-)
My first Linux system was a 386SX/16 with 4 MB of RAM and two 60 MB RLL disks. The Soft Landing Systems distro was installed on it sometime in 1992. That original system has long since been upgraded, but a fresh install has never been performed on its successors... Here's one of the a.out executables from that time that still exists on one of my current systems (AMD K6-III/450 currently running something that is mostly a mixture of Slackware 10 and 11 with a 2.6.21 kernel): $ ls -lsai /bin/d 4030 14 -r-x--x--x 1 bin bin 13276 Sep 5 1992 /bin/d Slackware is the direct descendant of SLS, and was the logical choice as far as leveraging whatever Linux sysadmin knowledge I had at the time SLS disappeared :-). With sincere apologies to Debian advocates, I had no compelling reason to look at Debian until I started experimenting with building custom Knoppix-based CDs. For whatever it's worth as far as healing hurt feelings, when I got my Alpha system, Debian was (and continues to be) the obvious choice :-). -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
