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Max Spevack (mspevack@redhat.com) said:
> But interestingly enough, when I interviewed at Red Hat and got the "what
> Linux distro do you use" question, everyone's response was "cool, I used to
> use Slackware too!"

"used to" being the operative word.

Bill

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On Dec 21, 2007 12:52 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:
> Max Spevack (mspevack@redhat.com) said:
> > But interestingly enough, when I interviewed at Red Hat and got the "what
> > Linux distro do you use" question, everyone's response was "cool, I used to
> > use Slackware too!"
>
> "used to" being the operative word.
>

Well there was that one crazy Support guy who would use Slackware and RPM...

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On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Max Spevack wrote:

But interestingly enough, when I interviewed at Red Hat and got the
"what Linux distro do you use" question, everyone's response was
"cool, I used to use Slackware too!"


"I used Slackware. Once. Then I tried to update it."

--Chris

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On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:19:57 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:

>
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Max Spevack wrote:
>
> > But interestingly enough, when I interviewed at Red Hat and got the
> > "what Linux distro do you use" question, everyone's response was
> > "cool, I used to use Slackware too!"
>
> "I used Slackware. Once. Then I tried to update it."

Ah, lessons in history. Slackware on 30-40 3.5" floppy disks. Updating it
-- one had to do it because of dependencies -- became more convenient with
the help of RPM (back in time still called Red Hat Package Manager) and
the most relevant tarball packages wrapped into binary rpms to fill the
RPM database.

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On Dec 22, 2007 10:00 AM, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:19:57 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
>
> >
> > On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:46 PM, Max Spevack wrote:
> >
> > > But interestingly enough, when I interviewed at Red Hat and got the
> > > "what Linux distro do you use" question, everyone's response was
> > > "cool, I used to use Slackware too!"
> >
> > "I used Slackware. Once. Then I tried to update it."
>
> Ah, lessons in history. Slackware on 30-40 3.5" floppy disks. Updating it

Heheh.. I remember one of the most common Red Hat Tech Support
questions early questions is:

How can I install Red Hat via floppies? All the cool Linux's use floppies!

I think Erik T was tasked once on seeing how feasible it was for a
potential paying customer... he probably still has nightmares about
it.

I wonder how many floppies it would take these days with delta-rpms
etc to split packages over...

> -- one had to do it because of dependencies -- became more convenient with
> the help of RPM (back in time still called Red Hat Package Manager) and
> the most relevant tarball packages wrapped into binary rpms to fill the
> RPM database.
>
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On Dec 22, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:


I wonder how many floppies it would take these days with delta-rpms
etc to split packages over...


How has the delta rpms stuff been coming? I hoped that it would make
it for some Fedora release. Huge win for users.


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On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 16:39 -0500, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
> On Dec 22, 2007, at 12:42 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>
> > I wonder how many floppies it would take these days with delta-rpms
> > etc to split packages over...
>
> How has the delta rpms stuff been coming? I hoped that it would make
> it for some Fedora release. Huge win for users.

I think the plan is for that to come in for F9.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeaturePresto

Later,
/B
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