Text 28795, 39 rader
Skriven 2007-02-20 09:02:42 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
  Kommentar till text 28754 av August Abolins (1:229/390)
Ärende: NOT a happy camper!
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Hi! August,

On 18 Feb 07 22:35, you wrote to me:

 AA> I'm warming up to the Linux experience.  My first exposure to *nix was
 AA> with a MicroVax operating with DEC's version of unix: Ultrix.   Loved
 AA> it.   I gradually developed a variety of scripts to handle menial
 AA> tasks.  Then, everything was CLI.   The fastest computer I had was a
 AA> terminal/networked 486pc.   Today.. packages such as Ubuntu spoil me!

I couldn't get Kubuntu to work on my spare machine even when it had 128megs of
RAM, so I'm kind of looking forward to seeing how Xubuntu goes on it as 'they'
say it ought to.  If it's as good as (at least) or better than -this- distro,
then it might be my permanent configuration.

I need a good excuse to blow away the Lycoris D/LX long-time install on it
(with a fine-tuned KDE 2.xx config); I liked that one, except that it's now a
'nowhere' option as they sold out to Mandrake/Mandriva.  The spare also has an
alternate boot (by way of switching around the HDD assignments) into Debian
3.1r2, which was plain ugly and installed both Gnome and KDE 3.xx, and, I hated
it.

For me, linux is a "technical curiosity" though -this- installation came as a
pleasant surprise.  (It has a very nimble window manager: IceWM running
straight off of 'X'.)  Linux was originally forced upon me during my full-time
studies a decade ago but, with the urging of (most of) the fellers in this
network (Net640), I was encouraged to play with it a bit more.

I'm more at home on Windows (3.xx/'9x/XP) and am comfortable at both the DOS
and Bash CLI's, and have written shell scripts to mimick some of my smaller
BATch files in order to give me (remote) control over some of my Fido mailer's
operation.

Cheers,
Paul.

... Soylent green is people.
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