Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
15 years ago and you were still having to wholly recompile the kernel to get a given driver? Linux broke away from that model a lot longer ago than the mid-aughts. I still remember the joy of no longer facing a multi-day compile just to add or update a driver.
...And you haven't lived until you've burnt a phosphor-track into your monitor because your X-config was just ever so slightly "off" in one of its timing values (because the monitor maker wasn't adequately-precise in their published timing-numbers).
Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
Heh... Yeah. When you've lived through the "three days to compile a new kernel and it won't let me login because I referenced the wrong keyboard driver" era, you don't forget when it ends. =)
Long live "Mr. Proper". :p
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15 years ago and you were still having to wholly recompile the kernel to get a given driver? Linux broke away from that model a lot longer ago than the mid-aughts. I still remember the joy of no longer facing a multi-day compile just to add or update a driver.
...And you haven't lived until you've burnt a phosphor-track into your monitor because your X-config was just ever so slightly "off" in one of its timing values (because the monitor maker wasn't adequately-precise in their published timing-numbers).
It seems it was longer ago, time passes by so quickly
Heh... Yeah. When you've lived through the "three days to compile a new kernel and it won't let me login because I referenced the wrong keyboard driver" era, you don't forget when it ends. =)
Long live "Mr. Proper". :p