Re: [Sheflug] Linux 2.4.8

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> As subject ;)
> 
> Possibly the most difficult kernel to compile, or possibly I've forgotton
> how it all works. Never mind, it's on now. And it feels noticibly faster
> than the previous edition I was using (2.4.0 .. not exactly a 'classic'
> version of linux :), and doesn't seem to be continually hitting swap on my
> machine anymore!

Well I'm grabbing it now and choking rather violently over the filezise ... 
it's a wopping 26MB...

I had a blast to the past a couple of days ago as there's one box I vaguely 
have to look after (vauely in that it's a case of "chris - there's summat 
wrong with this box again, and I can't work out what. Can you have a 
look?") which is still running a 2.0 kernel ... and the source tree for a 
2.0 is 6MB.

Linux has certainly grown up over the years...

Chris...

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