[ILUG] Hoary tales of predawn age linus. Was qmail vs sendmail

[Caolan McNamara]

At 11:16 13.06.00 +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>Fortunately, the first linux box I used (0.96.something) was big enough to
>have a large 8Mb of memory - later expanded to a whopping 16Mb.

Lucky sod, Had 4 meg machine running X, You certainly learnt the desirability
of make so as not to rebuild untouched source files. And to keep the size of C
files down to a minimum to minimize rebuilding time. Plus always adding new 
functions
to the top of a file so that the compiler would see your new probably 
broken code
first so it wouldn't waste time compiling known working code and keep you 
waiting
for diagnostics. Shudder.

Ill draw a veil over the multi hour kernel rebuilding to protect the 
delicate. Gasp
in disbelief at multiple attempts at installing slackware unto machine 
using floppies.
Disk number x of course was always buggered, dance for joy at loan of 
portable parallel
hard drive. A full 80 meg partition with X & full development environment 
and space left
over, luxurious amount of room. Damn memory was always too tight though to 
make it an
*enjoyable* development platform.

C.