Re: Kernels do not compile anymore

Chris Adams (cmadams@hiwaay.net)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 22:22:10 -0600


Once upon a time, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> said:
>There have been a few 1.3.x and 2.1.x Red Hat releases, and also Slackware
>ones, IIRC. And the first distribution of them all, SLS, was born _before_
>1.0

There haven't been any Red Hat releases with a 1.3.x or 2.1.x kernel.
The Rawhide distribution may have used one, but that is specifically a
whole distribution that is alpha/beta test stuff (aka "bleeding edge").

And SLS wasn't the first distribution - MCC was came before it. Don't
forget H.J. Lu's boot and root disks (they had all you _really_
needed!). I remember being amazed at the single boot/root disk (way
before compressed ramdisks and the like). It even had vi and color_ls!

>[Just shows I've been around longer than you ;-]

There's always someone that's been around here longer, unless your name
is Linux Torvalds! :-)

-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Information Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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