Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Tue 24 Apr 2018 at 11:00:34 (+0200), Jochen Spieker wrote:
> Kenneth Parker:
> > One more thing.  I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as
> > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running
> > systems, has been going for a while,
> 
> It has been going on since at least 2008, so calling these changes
> "recent" uses a quite flexible definition of that word. :)

Perhaps they seem recent to people who don't stray from the defaults.

I looked back and saw that ip arrived with woody in July 2002,
but was probably around a bit before that when woody≡testing.
Took me at least seven years to discover.

Cheers,
David.