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[opensuse] Mandy 7.2 fires right up after 3-4 years sitting on a shelf!
- From: "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:26:26 -0500
- Message-id: <49E83D32.7070409@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Listmates,
Had to share this somewhat comical but painfully fun event. Long ago I
retired
my mandrake 7.2 (odyssey) server and the box had gone through a number of
changes since I yanked the 40G IBM Deskstar drive out of it after (??) 4 years
of continual service. The network card was new, the video card was new, but
despite the changes, when I put the drive back into the box - 7.2 fired right
up! Remember linuxconf? Remember when you were not even presented with a list
of potential modules to load, but instead had to look in /lib/modules/<kernel>
just to find something that looked close like the 3c90x.ko module to get a
3c950 card running? Recall the old drakes - XFdrake, menudrake, etc.? Man what
a trip down memory lane and talk about cobweb filled memories.
The entire ordeal was prompted by a new lady that I hired today needing
a box
put together on the quick. I wasn't going to sacrifice the raid array in the
box or the spare 250G drive in there that I still had not had time to parse
through to make sure I wasn't throwing anything important away. Thus, the old
40G was enlisted to pull another tour of duty, and... for the first time in its
8 year life, it was spoon fed -- windows.... yuk!
So we bid a fair adieu to mandy 7.2, and 12 hours later had a fully
updated XP
install, complete with a slew of the little utilities I can't live without
(fileMenuTools, FMview, mysql gui tools, etc...) and topped off with a full MS
Office, OpenOffice, Gimp, PaintShop Pro, and imagemagick install with all
updates through SP3 to current installed. (What a painful process)
The more you have to go back a tinker with windows, the more you
appreciate
the elegance of Linux and the distribution Novell has put together. The trip
down memory lane with mandy 7.2 and KDE 2 also showed just how far KDE3 had
come since the early days. We can only hope that KDE4 can achieve as much.
(P.S. Next time I'm just buying a preloaded box at Staples, this install and
configure from scratch stuff with windows is just too damn painful...)
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
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Had to share this somewhat comical but painfully fun event. Long ago I
retired
my mandrake 7.2 (odyssey) server and the box had gone through a number of
changes since I yanked the 40G IBM Deskstar drive out of it after (??) 4 years
of continual service. The network card was new, the video card was new, but
despite the changes, when I put the drive back into the box - 7.2 fired right
up! Remember linuxconf? Remember when you were not even presented with a list
of potential modules to load, but instead had to look in /lib/modules/<kernel>
just to find something that looked close like the 3c90x.ko module to get a
3c950 card running? Recall the old drakes - XFdrake, menudrake, etc.? Man what
a trip down memory lane and talk about cobweb filled memories.
The entire ordeal was prompted by a new lady that I hired today needing
a box
put together on the quick. I wasn't going to sacrifice the raid array in the
box or the spare 250G drive in there that I still had not had time to parse
through to make sure I wasn't throwing anything important away. Thus, the old
40G was enlisted to pull another tour of duty, and... for the first time in its
8 year life, it was spoon fed -- windows.... yuk!
So we bid a fair adieu to mandy 7.2, and 12 hours later had a fully
updated XP
install, complete with a slew of the little utilities I can't live without
(fileMenuTools, FMview, mysql gui tools, etc...) and topped off with a full MS
Office, OpenOffice, Gimp, PaintShop Pro, and imagemagick install with all
updates through SP3 to current installed. (What a painful process)
The more you have to go back a tinker with windows, the more you
appreciate
the elegance of Linux and the distribution Novell has put together. The trip
down memory lane with mandy 7.2 and KDE 2 also showed just how far KDE3 had
come since the early days. We can only hope that KDE4 can achieve as much.
(P.S. Next time I'm just buying a preloaded box at Staples, this install and
configure from scratch stuff with windows is just too damn painful...)
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
Rankin Law Firm, PLLC
510 Ochiltree Street
Nacogdoches, Texas 75961
Telephone: (936) 715-9333
Facsimile: (936) 715-9339
www.rankinlawfirm.com
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