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• Should have used...
  2005-07-12 07:59:10  jay-lee [Reply | View]
  
  
  Kernel version numbers instead of years.
  
  1.2.13 was the stable kernel and 1.3.50 was the unstable when I first installed Slackware. How I remember downloading all those seemingly huge files over 28.8k dialup all evening, then writing them to floppies which took nearly as long as the download and was prone to floppy failures. Partitioning my mother's 170mb drive into 90mb for DOS/Win3.1 and 80mb for Linux. She never noticed until I once reinstalled and forgot to set the dos partition as the default. She was certain I'd destroyed the whole computer when she saw the linux kernel boot :-) You kids and your Fedora DVDs downloaded over 3mb/sec broadband, you've got it so easy!
• Should have used...
  2005-07-13 11:16:48  Justin Clarke [Reply | View]
  
  
  Well, I was personally ecstatic when 1.2 was released at all, since I'd been compiling a new kernel daily since somewhere in the late patch level 90's of the 1.1 kernel series ;-)
  
  I do remember the "stable" 1.2.x kernels releasing an awful lot of patches before arriving at 1.2.13 as well.