OT: Linux flavors...

[Bill Campbell]

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''.

Bill
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