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Doing a lot with a little

Doing a lot with a little

Posted Feb 9, 2004 6:13 UTC (Mon) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216)
In reply to: Doing a lot with a little by allesfresser
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.0.40 released

Oh, and one more thing... that box would still be running today and plugging along just fine if somebody hadn't gone and knocked over a water bottle into its innards. (No, it wasn't me.) :-)

I understand the desire to have the latest stuff, and that's all well and good, but the needs of this particular office were such that you could have left that thing running to this day and they would have been fine. So I can see why someone would still want to use the 2.0.40 kernel, especially if there were incompatible changes made in forward versions or support for old devices (necessary for certain hardware) was dropped.


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