even gnu and free software like linux arent imune to bloating over time

(05:59:12 AM) digitteknohippie: /me is gonna muse here for a mo...
(05:59:31 AM) digitteknohippie: you ever think about how much faster your os was back in 2003 to now?
(06:00:06 AM) digitteknohippie: I'm half-tempted to go fetch an old suse 9.1 disk out, and use it instead.
(06:00:26 AM) digitteknohippie: of course, just copying over some configs once installed my lightweight custom desktop apps.
(06:00:38 AM) digitteknohippie: so it'd look n feel the same as I like.
(06:00:43 AM) digitteknohippie: ... only, much faster.
(06:03:35 AM) digitteknohippie: thing is, all those times they issued "security updates", creates a mental block of "oh I can't go back, or it'll be insecure". pish posh, how insecure could it rly be. update some important core stuff, (like gcc maybe) and then install a decent firewall, maybe SElinux.... and away you go....
(06:04:07 AM) digitteknohippie: shud b secure enough. how secure do we really need anyways.
(06:06:42 AM) digitteknohippie: ^_^
(06:06:48 AM) ***digitteknohippie takes it to the blog