I must have been ahead of time then. For me there was already no excuse back in 1999 when I installed a "Black Hat" distro booting from Floppy to have CD-Rom dr

I must have been ahead of time then. For me there was already no excuse back in 1999 when I installed a "Black Hat" distro booting from Floppy to have CD-Rom drivers and successfully made the transition from a 1.something kernel to 2.something without breaking anything.