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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 16:36 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Dale did |
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> opine thusly: |
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>> What's the old saying, if it's working, don't fix it. |
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> "What's the old saying, if it's working, don't fix it, until it's ancient, not |
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> supported and your box won't update world anymore so you are up the creek |
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> without a paddle and shit outta luck" |
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> There ya go, fixed that for ya Dale :-) |
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Well, if I wanted to stay fairly ancient, I could have stayed with |
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Mandrake. They were pretty slow to release packages and even then they |
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were way behind. lol |
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That's one thing about Gentoo, you get new stuff pretty quick even if |
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you run stable. If you run unstable, you get things really quick, bugs |
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and all. ;-) |
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Speaking of ancient: |
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Apr 16 2009 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-8 |
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I still got that old kernel in there. I would be surprised if it would |
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boot and work. I bet udev would really have "issues" with that old |
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thing. I'm not running that tho. I am actually up to 2.6.35-gentoo-r4 |
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so far. See, I'm not completely ancient. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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