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Since around 1995 to be specific.

• icedchai 5y ago
  I remember manually migrating my Slackware install from a.out to ELF around that time. Maybe it was 1996.
  • anyfoo 5y ago
    Me too, then later the same again with libc5 to glibc. Obviously learned a ton about the system by manually reconstructing it that way (using only source tarballs, no packages).
    • incompatible 5y ago
      I upgraded my TAMU-based system to ELF. It seems there are a few of us "crazier people" that the article mentions still around. For several years I didn't get any distribution updates but installed new versions of packages from source instead. It was fighting GNOME updates that finally made me throw in the towel.
  • deckard1 5y ago
    '96 feels about right. I, too, was on a.out briefly on Slackware before the big ELF migration. Was actually rather smooth. Not nearly as bad as the lib32 to lib64 pain train