On Wednesday 23 June 2004 02:32, John Summerfield wrote: > Monique Y. Mudama wrote: [...] > >And the dot-oh releases were well known to be buggy piles of crap. > >There was always some nasty gotcha lurking in the system. I don't > > know why that was the case, but it definitely held true from at > > least 4 to 6, maybe 7. Somewhere in there I stopped having to care > > because I switched to Debian. > > I switched over from OS/2 to 5.0. I was surprised later to discover > people regarded it as buggy. I don't recall how much I used 6.0, but > where I work we still have a 7.0 box in place: I chose 7.0 over 7.1 > so as to have a 2.2 kernel as standard (required for a sat card).
I remember trying to switch to RH4.2. I never could sort out my hardware with it, so back to OS2... Coincidentally, I threw out the box from the 4.2 distro only yesterday. I`ve fished it out of the wastepaper basket. Here`s an extract from what it says on the box: UPGRADE FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES Because Red Hat Linux Release 4.2 is built with advanced RPM technology, your system will never become obsolete. As new releases become available you can upgrade any or all of your components to the newest versions using a simple upgrade program that does all the work for you... That was Red Hat, not Debian. hmm... I must look out the disks for 4.1, I probably still have them somewhere... must be valuable antiques by now... <totters off, stroking beard> -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
