On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 18:25 -0700, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors influence the choice?
To set the tone, here are my answers:
openSUSE
Il 19/07/2015 17:12, Charles-H. Schulz ha scritto:
Hello everyone,
James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com @ 2015-07-19 03:43 CEST:
On 07/18/2015 09:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members
Ah. We didn't even have computers on the curriculum. there weren't many
schools that did.
From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com
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On 07/23
On 07/23/2015 04:40 AM, Gary Collins wrote:
We didn't have computers at all at school
We didn't either. I had a FORTRAN class in grade 12 and filled in
pencil mark cards, which the teacher took to the board office, to run on
the computer there.
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Yes, I remember those (this is getting a bit like The Three Yorkshire
Men!)
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Yes, I remember those (this is getting a bit like The Three Yorkshire
Men!)
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On 23/07/15 09:40
Original message
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Date:07/23/2015 7:45 AM (GMT-05:00)
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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey
Yes, I remember those
On 23/07/15 09:40, Gary Collins wrote:
We didn't have computers at all at school,
neither did welog tables and slide rule!
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anne-ology wrote:
true.
I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed
in the movies -
filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin' ;-)
I worked several years with large computers (CDC Cyber series).
One of my old professors
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On 07/21/2015 07:15 AM, Gary Collins wrote:
My first home computer was a BBC micro (anyone remember those
; Gary Collins
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Hi :)
PDP11s look interesting!
A short article that claims the default OS was Multics
On 7/18/2015 9:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at work?
What factors influence the choice?
I'm definitely in the minority of responders so far, as I
hello,
I spent nearly 30 years with IBM, looking after mainframe customers as a
systems engineer. I was around
at the time when Bill G. convinced IBM to go his way with regard to PCs.
I still don't quite understand WHY
our people let themselves get convinced - I suppose it was mostly a
matter
On 07/22/2015 07:26 PM, anne-ology wrote:
and going back further to the 1940-'50s,
IBM thought that there would not be any market for these machines
outside of financial scientific researchers ;-)
IBM was looking at the market potential at that specific point in time,
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Am 22.07.2015 um 21:26 schrieb anne-ology:
and going back further to the 1940-'50s, IBM thought that there would not
be any market for these machines outside of financial scientific
researchers ;-)
that is, why they don't make much money these
and going back further to the 1940-'50s,
IBM thought that there would not be any market for these machines
outside of financial scientific researchers ;-)
From: H. Stoellinger hc.stoellin...@aon.at
Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:51 AM
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On 07/22/2015 07:28 PM, anne-ology wrote:
I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed
in the movies -
filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin'
I used to maintain that sort of computer.
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On 07/22/2015 04:38 PM, toki wrote:
Not even the science fiction of the fifties and sixties anticipated that
by the end of the twentieth century, computers would be as ubiquitous
as they were.
I have a Tricorder app for my Android phone. ;-)
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On Wed, 22 Jul 2015, toki wrote:
Not even the science fiction of the fifties and sixties anticipated that
by the end of the twentieth century, computers would be as ubiquitous
as they were.
In 1967 the Philco-Ford Corporation released a short film titled 1999
A.D. In it the inevitable
true.
I thoroughly enjoyed the way these massive machines were portrayed
in the movies -
filling an entire room, whirrin' with lights a-flashin' ;-)
From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating
true;
although prior to that - 1965 - at the NY World's Fair, the GE
exhibit was fantastic with it's future-look.
From: Felmon Davis dav...@union.edu
Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT] Operating Environment Survey [Kubuntu
Linux]
To: users
My remembers and my present:
My first contact with a computer was with a main fraime (That all I
know and remember of my first job).
My second time was with a Unisys system that has a supply system to
help my job. A very old kind of terminal.
My third contact was my
My first real computer job was data entry typing punched cards for an
IBM system.
Then I started working at several colleges with those ghastly PDP/11
systems. One was the core for a large computer center with large tape
units, and one was just a stand alone system with a drive platter and
Hi :)
PDP11s look interesting!
A short article that claims the default OS was Multics;
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/PDP-11-Programmed-Data-Processor-11
but that many put Unix on it. Wikipedia gives a great long list of OSes
that ran on or could run on PDP11s;
Hi :)
I'm sure many on this mailing list would be willing to help you get
started.
There are various ways of doing quite a lot of test-driving before
committing yourself to anything.
1. It is probably good to 'rescue' an older machine from somewhere in
order to test-drive a few things first
Wow, you're survey has me interested;
and I'm quite amazed at the results which have been posted so
far ...
[see my responses intermingled below in your query]
From: James E Lang jim+...@lang.hm
Date: Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:25 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] [OT]
On 18 July 2015 at 20:25, James E Lang jim+...@lang.hm wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors influence the choice?
At work (network admin), I am stuck with
On 07/21/2015 07:15 AM, Gary Collins wrote:
My first home computer was a BBC micro (anyone remember those?) That was back
in the days when programming had to be really tight, only had 32Kb (yes, Kb)
of RAM; long term storage was all external on cassette tapes
My first computer was an IMSAI
My 2 main machines are both Macintosh systems running Yosemite. Work is also
home so no differences there. Main development machine is a Mac Laptop.
On 2015-07-19 03:25, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s)
On 07/18/2015 09:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors influence the choice?
My first home computer was a BBC micro
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On 19.07.2015 03:25, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors influence the choice?
To set the
On 07/19/15 03:25, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at work?
What factors influence the choice?
I use LO 4.3 on a FreeBSD 10.1/amd64 laptop.
On the desktop I'm
On Sat, 2015-07-18 at 21:43 -0400, James Knott wrote:
On 07/18/2015 09:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors influence the choice?
On 07/18/2015 09:43 PM, James Knott wrote:
On 07/18/2015 09:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at work?
What factors influence the choice?
Personal:
All
_**_
*Hi All
*After 25+ years in the Computer business I retired in the early 2000s.
I had been involved with CP/M, DOS and Windows during this period and
even did a Xenix Course at one time which I found interesting, (Unix was
a propitiatory name in those days!!). I also played with Coral
I am not young (as someone suggested early on that Linux users usually
are). I have Linux
lxle on one desktop, opensuse on another desktop, and ubuntu on a very very
old laptop.
No windows products. Android tablet.
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 9:43 PM, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote:
On
Before I became a pensioner my work environment was Sun Solaris, but my
workstation was Redhat later Ubuntu linux. I had Windows 7 in a
Virtualbox for some administrative functions which required Windows.
Others in my group (sysops) used other varieties of linux. The grunts
used Windows.
At
On 07/19/2015 03:25 AM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at work?
What factors influence the choice?
To set the tone, here are my answers:
here are mines:
While we're waiting for a formal survey to be developed:
My primary machine is a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 7, used for both
home and work. While I have a UNIX background and would be willing to
experiment with LINUX, there is software I need for work that comes in
Windows or Windows.
Hello everyone,
James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com @ 2015-07-19 03:43 CEST:
On 07/18/2015 09:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors
I work at home, where I have a 15-year old Mac G4 running OS 10.4, and a
new System76 Gazelle Pro running Ubuntu 15.04. I love the Mac and it
continues to work just fine (knock on wood), but it became increasingly
frustrating or impossible to access the Web 2.0-style mobile-targeted
websites
Hi,
At work I use Windows 7 for corporate policy reasons.
At home, three computers currently. One has only Linux installed (my
desktop), one laptop is dual boot between W7 and Linux, and the last has
W8.1 and will be set up as a dual boot.
Only my desktop is used for anything more stressful
always a good idea. this should be done about once every 6 mo. to also
track trends. first the questions should be suggested and agreed upon.
then, before the next survey 6 mo. down the road, we discuss
modifications to the list; probably more additions than deletions, maybe
a few wording
On 07/18/2015 09:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors influence the choice?
Personal:
All computers run openSUSE 13.1
ThinkPad E520
On 07/18/2015 06:25 PM, James E Lang wrote:
The big discussion of Linux over the past 24+ hours has me wondering: What
operating environment(s) do other members of this list use at home and at
work? What factors influence the choice?
To set the tone, here are my answers:
• I am retired so
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