said Thierry de Coulon via tde-users: | How many floppies were there for OS/2 2.x? It depended. About 25, I think, but a dozen more if you also had IBM's Voice-Type Dictation. (Which was a monster in and of itself. Had to be trained. I know of people who got it to work, but I never did.) | > Though | > he didn't get into editing Xf86config, which was half the . . . fun.) | | That's where my first Linux experience ended. I'd just got my first 17" | Screen and would not take the risk of destroying it. Those were the wild west days. I'd burn a new kernel whenever one came out, which almost always required upgrading some package or another, and on RPM-based systems you didn't know which ones very easily. I'll never forget the time I tried up upgrade GCC. It ultimately worked out, but it was a hair-raising couple of days. The good test to see if I had everything working properly was to compile the latest XFree86, which took a very long time. And there was a long period during 1.x and 2.x when some of us, me included, would compile a whole new version of KDE every few days. One of my little jobs was to make sure everything worked on a Cyrix equivalent of a 486-233, because I had one and we weren't entirely sure just how Intel compatible they were. (configure --prefix /opt/kde) More fun then than it would be now, I think. -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
