2.6.0-test7-1-386 (herbert@gondolin) #1 Sun Oct 12 10:29:56 EST 2003

   Why does this work? Because now that we're a few years into the century,
   nearly all the kernels contain something with a year 2000 or later, and
   we'll have 200n year numbers for a while yet. On an older system, try 199 -
   Linux isn't old enough to have kernels from 1980 unless someone is playing
   serious games with their clock. You could probably look for the @ sign, but
   chances are too good of finding one alone somewhere in the binary portion of
   the code.
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   my pick of linux flavors...

   Then some folks in an IRC channel got into discussing what sort of mayhem we
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   Gnome and KDE both [98]extend their hints against the competition, crushing
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   FVWM laughs and sprouts modules to extend itself, while [100]fast light wm
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