[ShadowAce]

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

The number of the release shall be known as 3.0. 3.0 shall be the number of the release. Not 2.7, not 2.9, but 3.0 shall be the number. And a very good number it is.

[isthisnickcool]

In the early 90's I was building EISA based systems using multiple I/O cards and lots of drives. Back then that was a pretty wild thing to do. And not cheap. A 500 meg drive was expensive. Chaining bunches of them together made for an interesting situation. I'd take large CPU cases and morph them in to drive carriers. It looked like Frankensteins monster with all the cables running back and forth. The main box with the motherboard, I/O cards, etc. got so hot we had to pump cold air in to it to keep it working.

We were using SCO. One day a guy posted something on the MINIX news group about building his own OS. We started chatting and I thought what he was trying to do was interesting and kept in touch. Eventually there were distributions. The initial ones were dozens of 5 1/4 floppies. Even in the early days a built system was very stable.

Linux (he pronounces it LEEEE-NUX) has come a long way. It has been a fun ride......

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ShadowAce.