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This was actually less of a problem than it seems in hindsight — back at that time, package managers were relatively new and not often used as were dynamic libr
by wayoutthere 5y ago
This was actually less of a problem than it seems in hindsight — back at that time, package managers were relatively new and not often used as were dynamic libraries, so most things were just static binaries compiled from tarballs.
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoI know 15 years ago feels like it ought to be back in the dimly-veiled prehistory of Linux but actually we were on RHEL4, which was released in 2005.
- wayoutthere 5y agoReally? Thought they bumped it in the late 90s. I was running IRC servers mostly in the 1995-2000 timeframe and I remember the connection limit going away at one point? It’s been ages, but I largely quit using IRC once I went to college so it had to be sometime around the late 90s :) Every network also seemed to have its own fork of ircd (and at least one rewrote it from scratch), so could have just been that the ones I used patched it in and others didn’t.