The backward compatibility of interfaces has been nothing short of heroic. It is easy to forget that I’m plugging networking equipment and USB devices into ports that would be old enough to drink, and still they speak to one another without getting into fisticuffs. Vintage Debian may have been floundering with janky display drivers and broken audio but at least it was ready to transfer memes off of drives from the future! Anybody doing a complete upgrade marathon, starting with Buzz in the ...| Wrongthink
Last month marked the start of an experiment where I upgrade through historic Debian releases, starting with Sarge. I am going at my own pace as, believe it or not, we Linux folks do have lives and responsibilities.| wrongthink.link