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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Anton Ertl   
   Re: VAX   
   01 Sep 25 06:57:26   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 01 Sep 2025 06:07:27 GMT, Anton Ertl wrote:   
      
   > I would have liked to install 64-bit Debian (IIRC I initially ran   
   > 32-bit Debian on the Athlon 64), but they were not ready at the time   
   > ... so eventually I decided to go with Fedora Core 1, which just   
   > implemented /lib and /lib64 and was there first.   
   >   
   > For some reason I switched to Gentoo relatively soon after ...   
   > before finally settling in Debian-land several years later.   
      
   Distro-hopping is a long-standing tradition in the Linux world. No other   
   platform comes close.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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