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		robertlagrant on Feb 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How do you explain the sloppiness of moder... > Over on the Linux side, forgetting to run LILO after recompiling a kernel would render your system unbootable. XFree86 was a nightmare to configure I'm not sure those are reliability issues.

treeman79 on Feb 1, 2022 [–]

I wanted free photo editing back in the day so I could learn to be a graphic artist. Six months of messing with Xfree86 and I got a career in programming and sysadmin

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