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[Ken Martwick <kenm AT surfbest.nrt>]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 03:31:20PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Ken Martwick wrote:
> 
> >I agree that BL is still useful to me though I sometimes
> >run Slackware 9.1 and 10.0 on CPU's up to Athlon.
> >Ken Martwick
> 
> For what purpose do you use the later Slackwares?  Later hardware?
> 
> So far the only thing we have used 8.1 for is to test whether a USB mouse 
> worked (before plugging it into a PS/2 adaptor).  But our newest computer 
> is 1999.
> 

Both later hardware and later software work better on the later versions.
Software that is actively developed moves toward later kernels that tend
to need later support programs.  For instance, I am again running the
openMosix clustering software which was discussed on this list some
time ago.  It currently supports only 2.4.x kernels.
Ken