Beta 8.10 released

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 October 2008, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:31:47 Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >Incidently, my local LUG currently has a membership ranging in age from
>> > 14 to 76.  (So far as we know.  There may, of course, be the odd closet
>> > 9 year old or 85 year old. ;-)  )  Why do groups of people need to be
>> > all the same age for people to "belong"??
>> >
>> >Lisi
>>
>> They don't Lisi, and that's the point.
>
>Yes - that is the point I was making.  Willy had said that he felt he didn't
>belong because you and I are so ancient.
>
>Lisi

Yes, and I should emphasize to Willy that for every 60+ here, there are 
probably 20 who are 30 and below, so we are effectively outnumbered 
ourselves.  So we couldn't "gang up" on him even if we wanted to. :-)

One of the things I might note is that for me, other than buying a laptop that 
had XP on it, and which now dual boots that and F8, there has never been a 
detour into the lions den called M$.  I have had several non-linux computers 
over the last 25 years, but they all ran a multiuser, multitasking OS, even 
my old trs-80 Color Computer 3 still setup in the basement runs today's 
version of OS9, called Nitros9 now.  I went from there to a big box amiga, 
then to linux without ever thinking windows was the answer.  It is, but only 
if the question is "what is the most restrictive, exasperating os ever 
coded?"

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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