Lars WirzeniusOn an IRC channel some friends are talking about their first Debian installation. I feel old again.
https://www.debian.org/releases/ is a handy reference for figuring out code name vs version number.
Bradley M. Kühn 🏳️🌈I went SLS⇒Slackware⇒Red Hat¹ in the 1990s. My friends in graduate school tried Hamm & couldn't get it working. One had Slink working but another didn't.
We got excited that maybe “frozen potato” (which maybe happened in early 1999?) would work everywhere.
Problem was: we couldn't find any vendor making a CD of 🧊🥔, so one of my friends installed Slink & tried upgrading to frozen potato over a 56k dialup modem.
I think my friend needed to make a phone call before it finished.
¹Few remember that the #Linux-based distribution *itself* was initially called Red Hat, then Red Hat Linux, until circa 2002 when Red Hat Advanced Server (later RHEL) & #Fedora split.
I'm a critic of the murky #RHEL business model <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/> — especially now #IBM's in charge — #RedHat did learned early, well, & correctly that naming the #copyleft-based product & the company the same leads only to acrimony & confusion. So many companies exploit that confusion & harm users.
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