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Re: [LUG] Kernel 2.6.30 is out ...

 

Simon Waters wrote:
> Grant Sewell wrote:
>   
>>> I remember when the 2.0.30 was out,  :)
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>       
>> My first was 2.2.14.  Just a mere youngster. :)
>>     
>
> I built a GNU/Linux box to run a software firewall from Seattle Software
> Labs, before they did their hardware appliances as WatchGuard. From the
> description it sounds like it was just Mazama rebranded.
>
> Wikipedia tells me this was probably before September 1996, I thought it
> was late 1995, so it must have been Linux 1.2 or 1.3. Mostly I remember
> it being hard work, but it probably wasn't that hard, just unfamiliar
> ground.
>
> It was rock solid and worked like a dream once it was built, with a
> pretty GUI for configuring the firewall.
>
> But yeah - I'll wait for stock Debian kernels this time - call me
> unadventurous - but my hardware is all working just as I like it ;)
>
>   
if system_state = stable
  then upgrade = false
  else upgrade = maybe
fi


"If it ain't broke, don't fix it.."

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