[mythtv-users] Re: Feature request: backwards compatability

Robert Johnston anaerin at gmail.com
Thu May 19 20:40:27 UTC 2005


On 5/19/05, Tom Lichti <tom at redpepperracing.com> wrote:
> Graham Dunn wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:20:46PM -0400, Tom Lichti wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Uh, yeah. It took me under an hour to get KnoppMyth running, and
> >>watching TV. I've only ever tried to install Gentoo once, and after
> >>about 4 hours of futzing around with it, I still didn't have an
> >>installed system. And I'm not a Linux noob, I've been doing this for a
> >>long time. My first distro was Yggdrasil.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Yggdrasil?! WE used to download Slackware 0.99 onto 720k floppies, over a
> >1200baud modem, worrying if disk set X would finish in time before we
> >had to get the next morning to start writing our sendmail.cf using ex
> >...
> >
> >
> LUXURY! Try it on a 300 baud modem with a coupler... :P

You have Modems? I had to use Semaphore and morse code to obtain it
from Imperial College in England and compile it on a Commodore +4...
(And so on)
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston


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