Remembering yesteryear

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 05:36:58PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Slackware had a big "discontinuity" at that point too, and a lot of
> people (myself included) switched over to Red Hat at that time because
> Red Hat made the switch to ELF, when Slackware/Patrick Volkerding was
> reluctant/slow to do so.

I don't think slackware was slow.  It may not have been complete, but
at least slackware tried, while SLS didn't.

> I upgraded my Slackware system to use ELF, mostly in place, which
> partly worked.  The degree to which that was less than "all" and
> "completely" led to my shift to RH.  These days, it would be futile to
> try to do an in-place upgrade of that sort of thing, as disk space is
> so much more voluminous and cheap.
> 
> The wikipedia page on Slackware suggests the same transition was what
> lead from SLS->Slackware, so it's conceivable I'm misrecollecting.  I
> never did use SLS; that was a tiny bit before my time.

SLS 1.03 was my first distribution.  My next was Redhat 2.0.  Then after
6.2 I went to Debian 2.0 (without much success), then 2.1 (with success).

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Len Sorensen
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