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Debian Upgrade Marathon: 3.1 Sarge


Had my priorities been better aligned, I would have first begun building Linux skills sometime during the Bush (W) administration. It has left me feeling as though I should make up for that lost time.

I see that the Debian desktop environment metapackage even back then supplies a bunch of default programs including some familiar and unfamiliar today; Synaptic, Eye of Gnome, GIMP, Inkscape, file-roller, OpenOffice and several dozen casual games. Only certain sites that negotiate very old SSL cipher sets can be loaded over HTTPS I devised a few files to test on each version of Debian. Did I mention how fast these old single core Pentium systems can feel with solid state storage and fiber connectivity?

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