Merced - and the ol' Unix story (was Re: OT, but info needed: RAM uprade)

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Tim Hotze wrote: Oy. I just spent the last five hours trying to install Red Hat 5.2. It turns out that the "stable" kernel Red Hat ships doesn't support my weird-ass 2048-byte-per-sector SCSI disk. But the latest unstable kernel does, so I just downloaded a 12MB tar file, configured the kernel (2.1 has a zillion config options), will let the damn thing build while I sleep, and I'll build a new boot floppy tomorrow.... But am I complaining? No. If I had hardware MS didn't support, I'd simply be SOL. With Linux, I can hack it, or discover that somebody already hacked it for me. Source is a Very Good Thing. ObCC: Around 1980 or so, I knew somebody with a license plate that said "Unix: Live Free or Die". Was this issued by Bell Labs? And who has one they'd like to sell? Doug (the artist formerly known as Yowza) Blinkenlights Archeological Institute, Dusty Deck Division