Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
Yes, but if you were one of those she would let you know in uncertain terms that ripe was not what she ment. She would probably hand you a bar of soap and show you the bath... I used to see her get in discussions with the gas co they would go out and shut down a customer due to a leak, she would send a plumber out to fix it and the the gas co would drag their feet getting the gas on, and usually it was some poor family in the middle of winter. That was a no-no, and for all of her 4ft 11 frame you did not cross her when things like that were at stake. On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 10:41 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Chuck Hast wrote: > > > .. old and those that get ripe, she said to get ripe, not old. > > Chuck, > > There are too many folks who follow this advice by not bathing or washing > their clothes for several weekd. > > Rich > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: Just an observation. I know you won't like it. ;-) Ben, Au contrair! It is not unexpected. Keep on truckin', Rich
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Paul Heinlein wrote: There's the hardware side of age -- how many trips around the sun have you made? -- and the software side -- do you "act your age"? The two are obviously linked, limitations imposed by the former cannot always be ignored by the latter, and yet there are choices involved along the whole of the aging process that leave much of "acting your age" up to the individual. Paul, Have you ever seen guidelines for how one should act at specific ages? I haven't but would like to see one. :-) Does 'act your age' apply to the 1%, celebrities or politicians? Rich
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, Chuck Hast wrote: My grandmother who ran a plumbing shop until she was 87 and was taken by a heart attack, told me that there are two types of people, those that get old and those that get ripe, she said to get ripe, not old. She was quite a character up to the night she passed on. There's the hardware side of age -- how many trips around the sun have you made? -- and the software side -- do you "act your age"? The two are obviously linked, limitations imposed by the former cannot always be ignored by the latter, and yet there are choices involved along the whole of the aging process that leave much of "acting your age" up to the individual. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
My grandmother who ran a plumbing shop until she was 87 and was taken by a heart attack, told me that there are two types of people, those that get old and those that get ripe, she said to get ripe, not old. She was quite a character up to the night she passed on. On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 7:37 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: > > > I am old now and I guess that was my swan song. I made a living for years > > using Slackware and was able to save enough to retire comfortably. > > Wayne, > > Many decades ago an older woman neighbor and friend shared her philosophy > of > life that I adopted and still live by: we do grow older but we don't have > to grow old. > > Stay well, > > Rich > > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote: I am old now and I guess that was my swan song. I made a living for years using Slackware and was able to save enough to retire comfortably. Wayne, Many decades ago an older woman neighbor and friend shared her philosophy of life that I adopted and still live by: we do grow older but we don't have to grow old. Stay well, Rich
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
Amen! (Praise Bob) My first Slackware system required a bunch of floppy disks, maybe 1996?. Business partners and myself at the time thought Debian was a better choice and we never did any projects with that Slackware. Later on and working as a sole proprietor, I needed pretty firm real-time performance and decided to try RTLinux developed at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The RTLinux patches at the time required a standard kernel as released by the kernel developers which was what Slackware shipped with. So I went back to Slackware and stayed there even after the standard kernels evolved to having a option to recompile to decent real-time performance. I am retired now, but last year a customer from 2011 wanted to update one of my systems. It is a distributed processing system doing some optimization on logs that are up to 70 Ft. in length with some machine control. The system originally utilized 6 ea. 6 core Athlons running 32 bit Slackware. I moved the system to Slackware64 current (current in May 2021) running on a SuperMicro SuperServer with 2 ea 12 core Xeon processors. Man what a machine! I am old now and I guess that was my swan song. I made a living for years using Slackware and was able to save enough to retire comfortably. Wayne On 2/3/22 1:27 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: It finally happened! Slackware 15.0 has been released! http://www.slackware.com/ The world's oldest active Linux distro lives on! Praise Bob! -Ben
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
My first X on PC was XFree86 on fairly recent SuSE, think they just switched from Slackware then. Before PC - I used some X looking/feeling thing on sunOS, VMS and HPUX, if i recall these abbreviations correctly. -T On Thu, Feb 3, 2022, 17:23 Russell Senior wrote: > My first distro was SLS in December 1992. I was an early adopter of > Debian when it came along. > > On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 2:10 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: > > > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > > > It finally happened! Slackware 15.0 has been released! > > > http://www.slackware.com/ > > > > > > The world's oldest active Linux distro lives on! Praise Bob! > > > > I remember installing Slackware '95. It was my first experience with > > Linux and difficult for me to fully understand. But it ran, and I got > > X11 configured. So chuffed was I! :-) > > > > -- > > Paul Heinlein > > heinl...@madboa.com > > 45.38° N, 122.59° W >
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
My first distro was SLS in December 1992. I was an early adopter of Debian when it came along. On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 2:10 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > It finally happened! Slackware 15.0 has been released! > > http://www.slackware.com/ > > > > The world's oldest active Linux distro lives on! Praise Bob! > > I remember installing Slackware '95. It was my first experience with > Linux and difficult for me to fully understand. But it ran, and I got > X11 configured. So chuffed was I! :-) > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinl...@madboa.com > 45.38° N, 122.59° W
Re: [PLUG] Slackware 15.0 finally happened!
On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, Ben Koenig wrote: It finally happened! Slackware 15.0 has been released! http://www.slackware.com/ The world's oldest active Linux distro lives on! Praise Bob! I remember installing Slackware '95. It was my first experience with Linux and difficult for me to fully understand. But it ran, and I got X11 configured. So chuffed was I! :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W
