Ah, that’s better.<\/p>\n\n
My poor little P133 Redhat 6.2 box gave up the ghost on Friday,\nafter about 9 years of faithful service. It had been tempermental for\na couple of years, but not so much so that I had to consider replacing it.\nIts original replacement as my desktop machine a few years ago –\na smokin’ 128 (count ’em!) megabyte PII-400 – once again performs\nreplacement duties.<\/p>\n\n
I also took the opportunity to switch distributions. I started out\nwith\nYggdrasil<\/a>\nback in 1994 (IIRC), switched to Redhat<\/a>\nin ’97, and now have gone with Debian<\/a>\nafter a lot of other developer types recommended it.<\/p>\n\n Except for some really odd behaviour with a\nbad bash<\/a>,\nand some corrupted binaries (a bad \/bin\/mount makes rebooting kinda hard) which\nrequired a re-install, it’s looking nice.\napt<\/a>\nis sweet, and it makes me wonder why I ever felt the need to fork over money for\nrhn<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ah, that’s better. My poor little P133 Redhat 6.2 box gave up the ghost on Friday, after about 9 years of faithful service. It had been tempermental for a couple of years, but not so much so that I had to consider replacing it. Its original replacement as my desktop machine a few years ago […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}