I think my first actual experience with installing and using Linux was with Red Hat 6.2, but I do recall browsing the SUNET mirror wondering how actually to retrieve and use Debian. Most things I know about computers I've taught myself, and you don't know much about floppy images and ISOs when you're, like, ten years old... Anyway, I dual-booted back then. I still remember trying to grasp the whole concept of "everything is a file", staring myself blind looking at /dev. It's an odd feeling, remembering ignorance! :)
I wished for, and received, a subscription to a good GNU/Linux magazine, so I always had new distributions to test. Some of them still exist today; some don't. I used Slackware for a while, but found the lack of dependency handling to be too troublesome for, er, preadolescence. Still, GNU/Linux was always my secondary system right up to the day I finally got the then-quite-frail Debian installer to work on my system. Debian with KDE3 stole me away from Windows as primary system, and eventually altogether. In recent years I've developed a fondness for minimalism, so I've done away with pre-established desktop environments and usually micro-manage the installation. I would probably settle for Arch Linux if they didn't have the annoying habit of messing up their package upgrade management quite so frequently. On 21 August 2013 16:41, William Kibira <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, Benjamin i hope you got Modem Manager to work > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:41 PM, William Kibira <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Like i said, easier to use and also it assumes your smart also, unless >> what your trying to operate is well somewhere between weird and well >> really fake [ Strange camera brands :)] , and of course , damaged flash >> drives. And stuff the Chinese might have made in category F (FAKE). >> >> I can't complain man, it is a great place to do stuff as a developer since >> it is pretty much the only place i have ever written code. Be it C/C++, >> python or Java, it has always been in Linux. >> >> Perhaps it should now be a battle of who thinks their selection of Linux >> flavors is the best. I have used only a few, >> ->Mandrake 9.2 >> ->RedHat 9.0 >> // When i was still a really a kid >> ->Kubuntu 8.4 <- Unique for their fire works screen saver that could send >> you into shock with weird light light effects and sound >> | >> | >> | >> | >> *buntu Till like 9.* and then gave up and ran away , >> *Fedora 9 [Didn't even last two days] i ran off and never looked back. >> ->OpenSUSE 11.1 , And from then on i have never looked back this has been >> the most loved >> ->Mint, brought meaning of ease of use and looks in linux to me, but i >> dumped it when someone gave me a copy of OpenSUSE 12.1 >> | >> | >> | No laptop between these periods [Stolen] >> >> SLES 11 [NOVELL] Hmm, i admired the fact that it came with tools, tools i >> really didn't want or need. And it had no access to my favorite Repositories >> to get stuff like SDL and some experimental libraries for C/C++ >> This OS was too serious for me [I was still too young to be serious] >> >> | Kicked it off, running OpenSUSE 12.2 >> | Ran OpenSUSE 12.3 for two months, it was too heavy and always crashed, >> it actually needed more updates than i could keep up with and locked all >> flash drives from being written to unless you were root, >> | Reverted back to OpenSUSE 12.2 >> >> I doubt i am going to change so long as i have what i need to write >> multimedia based software in C/C++, i really don't care. >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Benjamin Tayehanpour >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 21 August 2013 09:44, Reinier Battenberg >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Man, we have come a long way. Awesome! >>> >>> Seconded. I find it ironic that most problems with buggy drivers and >>> the like I face today has to do with Windows. While it would be an >>> overstatement to say that everything Just Works in Linux, most things >>> do, and more importantly, troubleshooting is much easier when the >>> operating system doesn't assume that you are an idiot. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug >>> >>> Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: >>> [email protected] >>> Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>> Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >>> To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug >>> >>> The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: >>> http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >>> >>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including >>> attachments if any). 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