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[Knapp]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Erik Christiansen
<dvalin at internode.on.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 04:46:37PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>> > Derek Broughton wrote:
>> >> Mark Haney wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Here's my take.  (and OPINION only)  I think that the majority of Ubuntu
>> >>> users are from the Windows world.  Ubuntu is pretty good for getting
>> >>> n00bs on to linux.
>> >     If your over 50 years old, 100% of you are old Windows and/or DOS
>> > users.
>>
>> You _may_ be right, but it's not guaranteed.  I was using an Apple IIe when
>> I was using DOS, and OS/2 until Windows 95.  There was only a brief period
>> between 96 & 98 when I was exclusively using Windows, then it was on to
>> Corel Linux and KDE.
>
> Nope, it's likely to happen one day, but not this time.
>
> This little over-50 keyboard basher has neither owned an M$ box, nor
> worked in the M$ environment, in 30 years working in IT. I saw M$ as a
> passing fad when BG started up his company, and have profited from
> learning only Solaris, HP-UX, and linux variants. Admittedly, unix office
> suites were expensive for home use back then, as was Solaris-x86.
>
> So the help I can offer is limited to linux/unix, and even there pretty
> much CLI solutions, because they're the ones which work for me.
>
> Erik

I started with a PDP 11 UNIX system. At the time I had no idea what
that meant though. Then went on to a os9 minicomputer. At about that
time I started working for a company making c64 software in basic and
6502 assembly. After that computer fad died. I moved to dos and then
windows until the blue screen of death drove me to the edge. I had
tried Linux before but it was so hard to use that I never installed
it. At about this time Mandrake starting working well for newbies, so
I installed that. Then it got really bad and I jumped ship to Ubuntu
after having a brief stab at running a Gentoo box (worked well and had
the fastest startup of any system ever until I tried to update the box
and never recovered from that mistake). So all in all I can't say that
I am a from windows or dos but I did walk that path for a few years.

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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