Re: Linux hostile to poverty]

Scott McDermott (vaxerdec@frontiernet.net)
Sun, 19 Jul 1998 19:12:37 -0400

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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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