Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:12:37 -0400 | From | Scott McDermott <> | Subject | Re: Linux hostile to poverty] |
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Linus Torvalds on Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 01:11:05PM -0700: > Just face facts: if you have a machine from 1985, why do you expect to > have an OS from 1998? If you can make do with an older machine, you can > make do with Linux-1.2 or Linux-2.0 (and people _do_).
Is 2.0 going to continue to be actively maintained (at least patches for exploits) for some time after we increment? I wasn't here prior to 2.x so I'm not familiar with the procedure.
-- Scott
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