OT: Linux flavors...

[Bill Vermillion]

Shakespeare wrote plays and sonnets that will last an eternity, 
but on Thu, Jul 08 09:58 , Bill Campbell wrote:" 

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2004, Fairlight wrote:
> >You'll never BELIEVE what Bill Campbell said here...:

> >> I went through a period where I was modifying Caldera's
> >> SRPMS to create custom RPMS tailored to some systems we were
> >> building including things like win4lin support. I learned
> >> much more than I really wanted to know about kernel building
> >> while doing that. I've also had to do some hacking on SCSI
> >> drivers to get ADFs working on scanners, but that was quite
> >> a while ago.

> >I learned more than I wanted to know when I -needed- HFS
> >support to read images off a Mac floppy for work, and the
> >kernel had been updated but the maintainer of the HFS
> >module hadn't stayed current. Thankfully it wasn't the most
> >challenging of ports. When he finally did his upgrade a year
> >later, I was gratified to see that I'd done mine right.

> >Today, I just shoot anyone that gives me Mac floppies.  :)  (J/K)

> I just stick them in my G4. I spend about a third of my desktop
> time on OS X, the rest on SuSE Linux. If I had a G5 instead of
> a 450MhZ G4, I would probabably spend most of my time on that.
> BTW: In the 2+ years I've been running OS X, the automatic
> software updates have worked flawlessly as have the in place
> update to ``Jaguar'' and ``Panther''.

In the far past I was running NeXTStep on an Intel Pentium.

That was interesting.  It could handle Unix oriented disks, or
Apple Mac disks - but not MS disks.

Bill
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