a crackpot idea i had

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 14 May 2002 06:05 am, Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 11:50, Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 May 2002 11:38:34 +1000 Keith Antoine
> >
> > <kantoine at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> > > On Monday 13 May 2002 14:02, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 12 May 2002 08:01 pm,dep wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > > a modern distribution based on 2.4, with
> > > > > everything simply updated to newer stuff.
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >
> > > > Isn't that what 3.1 was supposed to be?
> > >
> > > It was! but did not turn out that way.
> >
> > My crumbly bain cells seem to remember that I liked 3.1 Beta pretty
> > well, but about that time I discovered several other distros that
> > worked equally well, so I never bellied up to the bar for 3.1 released
> > version.
>
> Well I did and was more than disappointed. As far as i was concerned it was
> no where near as friendly as LTP itself, also it was ancient in the
> suuplied programs. I had to get to and update a great deal just to ge a
> decent compile on the latest kernel. Kde was far behind etc. nuff said.

I must've done something wrong since I've compiled kernel 2.49 and 2.4.18 with 
the tools provided by the base eWorkstation 3.1 install...

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