Long time no see.....

[Man-wai Chang]

> Many of us have never left, but the list has certainly become a
> low-traffic phenomenon. In the early days Linux distros needed lots of
> howto's and hand holding to get any of the standard wish list of
> packages to function. Now, almost every distro "just works" on almost
> every imaginable type of PC and laptop, so we're down to the comfort
> of "old friends" interchanges or the occasional edge case.

LinuxFromScratch is still around, and there is a less challenging
distribution called Gentoo...

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