[ale] My how things have changed...

[preston.lists at gmail.com (Preston Boyington)]

Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> If you want a serious example about how far things have come, go
> download Slackware 4 and set it up on an old box. Although it is a
> relatively modern distribution...

If memory serves Slack jumped numbers so people wouldn't get the wrong
impression of it being "behind the times".  I believe that RH and
Mandrake were both at "7" so Patrick released Slack with the same.

I know it was just from a marketing view because of Slack 4 being on the
shelves beside Red Hat and Mandrake 7.

I really don't know the times that people have matter of factly told me
that they run "Linux 10" (or some such).  When asked to specify a distro
(thinking maybe SuSE / Fedora / whatever) I get told ~sigh~ LINUX!


Preston

(former Slacker and BSD buddy, now Debianite)