On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 12:47 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:22:05 +0200 (EET), kuncho pencho
> <kuncho_71@???> wrote:
> > I can't update exim. It's run on gentoo with linux kernel 2.4, i
> > should install it from scratch bit it's impossible for me. :(
>
> Gentoo is a distribution for people who _really_ know their way
> around
> Linux. If you can't update a single package on Gentoo, you need to
> change to a distribution that matches your skills.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
Marc - there's a fair chance that kuncho pencho knows that already
(Gentoo is a distro ...)
They have a 2.4 kernel on a Gentoo box which frankly I didn't realise,
as a fairly long term Gentoo user, was even possible.
According to WP (my first kernel was 1.9something on the Yggdrasil
distro but my memory grows dim):
Kernel 2.4 released 4 January 2001
Gentoo Linux 1.0 released March 31, 2002
That's a pretty short window of opportunity. So what on earth is a 2.4
kernel powered Gentoo box doing in late 2015?
I've got Gentoo boxes shuffling email since 2003 that nowadays run a
4.x kernel and a modern toolchain and so on (Trigger's Broom -
https://
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trigger%27s_broom&redirect=no). One
day they'll have to be moved from 32 to 64 bit and that will need a re-
install but the config remains the same ...
I'd love to know what Kuncho's box is doing and why it can't join the
C21.
Cheers
Jon
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