A Short History of Linux Distributions

Posted Jul 5, 2004 16:25 UTC (Mon) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: A Short History of Linux Distributions by jzbiciak
Parent article: A Short History of Linux Distributions

You remember it? well,

puma:bin $ pwd
/usr/local/bin
puma:bin $ file unshar xx*code
unshar:   Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
xxdecode: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
xxencode: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped
puma:bin $ date
Mon Jul  5 18:23:31 CEST 2004

I still run some of them. Why should I recompile when they Just Work(tm)? Not that I need xxdecode any more, Bitnet is gone... :-) I still run SunOS binaries on my Solaris systems, as well :-)

Cheers, Joachim