[ale] Ubuntu forum Subject "Who else thinks 8.04 is a MAJOR dissapointment?"

[Mike Harrison]

> THe trials and tribulations of getting linux to run was one of the draws
> for us geeks.  I started playing with linux with one of the origional
> slack ware distro's, now a whole generation of of users don't even have
> a floppy drive on their computers.

I used to be good at modifying Tulip driver C code for whatever 
variant of the DEC 21140 card I had, Or tweaking Phillip Becker's 3c509
code for yet another variant of 3com ethernet card.. and -once- I helped 
make a driver for an LMC Tulip Based DS3 card for an Alpha.. and -once- I 
worked with some guys at Sandia Labs as we were both trying to mod a 
driver for a weird high end SCSI card at the same time, e-mails and IRC
got our code in sync and working on both systems.

Sigh.. And here I was complaining about Skype's audio quality under padsp.

Jaded, aren't we?