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this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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TIL this is a thing. I started doing that over 30 years ago with SLS and Slackware when that was the only choice.
This was pre-PnP (also pre-JPEG!), so you had to know all the addresses, IRQs, DMA info, etc, of your hardware or you'd get... unexpected results.
makeit and they will come...After countless distros and flavours over the years, I still use Debian for servers and now use EndeavourOS for desktop/laptops.
Thanks for that flashback.