Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 19, 2007, at 17:54, Ben Scott wrote: /me ponders running early Linux distros in a VM, for the hack value... I've got some InfoMagic discs with floppy images around here somewhere (frikkin' packrat) if you want them. I'm curious if there's a VM that emulates an old enough PC for

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Charles Farinella
Bill McGonigle wrote: Funny thing is I'm doing some work later today on a new project using a Slackware-based distro. (first time in ~12 years) FWIW, I'm wiping my Ubuntu 6.10 this week and putting Slack 11 back on. I'm just too stupid for these modern distributions. :-) --charlie

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 03/20/2007 11:43 AM, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/20/07, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By time my friend, Jim Hart, convinced me to try Linux, Slackware was out (with an IP stack!), so I'm not really sure what Yggdrasil supported, myself. Yggdrasil was last released circa 1995. It

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On 3/20/07, Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started using Linux in the summer of '92 (get off my lawn!), so it was even pre-distro. IIRC, there has always been an IP stack of some sort, since I had a Western Digital *mumble* ISA Ethernet controller that I could use to network with

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: ...oh crap! I replied to a message that came from a list, but when I was about to click send I see that my reply doesn't go back to where the message came from. Now off to edit the To: field before I can click send. That is a

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Freeman
mike ledoux writes: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: ...oh crap! ... That is a problem... with your mail reader. If it bothers you, I recommend switching to a mail reader that doesn't have that problem, rather than complaining. Then I'd have other things

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:02:40PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: mike ledoux writes: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: ...oh crap! ... That is a problem... with your mail reader. If it bothers you, I recommend switching to a mail reader that doesn't have

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Freeman
mike ledoux writes: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:02:40PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: mike ledoux writes: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: ...oh crap! ... That is a problem... with your mail reader. If it bothers you, I recommend switching

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/20/07, mike ledoux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, but finding new things to complain about is at least half of the fun! Back in my day, we only had three things to complain about, and we liked it that way! -- One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / And the next it's rolling over me

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/19/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With nine people present (and one of them a non-combatant), how many distros would you expect? We heard about: Debian, Slackware, OpenBSD, OS X, Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, SuSE, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, more RedHat, Knoppix, Gentoo, Libranet and some