On 21 August 2013 17:29, William Kibira <[email protected]> wrote: > I was born at the end of the year 1990, so yes, i have seen a floppy disk > but then, no, i never saw linux until i was 16 running on a SUN machine that > everyone was afraid to touch.
I was born towards the end of the year 1988, so we're fairly contemporary. I had a grandfather with a thing for R/C hobby and general electronics, so I've had interests in that area since kindergarten. I dismantled every piece of home electronics I could get my hands on, basically, with growing comprehension as the years went by. From there, getting interested in computers isn't far away :) my father has always been something of an enthusiast for new venues to make business, so we had Internet access in our home from maybe -95 or -96. That was an entirely different era, mind you; the rates weren't based on traffic volume, but on the time you were connected. And the speeds... Our first modem had a theoretical max speed of 33.6kbit/s, which was very theoretical indeed. One would ideally dial up after 18:00, the rates being cheaper in the evenings. I kinda missed out on the era of dial-up BBSes, which was fairly well-developed in Sweden, but I did manage to experience some of it before they all went extinct. I still miss that era. It was cosier. The almighty Internet of today is enough to give a lad agoraphobia. > Arch linux, Never really used it. Debian, Hmm, not fond of it even though i > have to admit it is good from what i see and yes, it is a little easy in my > opinion on memory. While I do appreciate stability, bleeding-edge code won't ever be stable unless people actually test it, so I like to live on the edge. That's one of the reasons I generally don't choose Debian. Debian is good if you want a rock-solid distribution at the expense of being far from the frontlines, which is pretty much the opposite of what I want. Another reason is that developers and maintainers associated with Debian do weird stuff from time to time, such as the whole FFmpeg/Libav controversy[1] (which has fair points all 'round, 'til you step back and realise that the whole affair essentially boils down to grown men and women massively failing to get their shit together and act like grown-ups over a serious matter). > Red Hat 6.2 , what planet were you on ? Never seen that one. Around the turn of the millennium, I think it was :) see typical screenshot at [2]. > I can't say i really hate any linux, i simply just work my way through any distro to get the job done but, on my box , OpenSUSE will stand unless some miracle happens which is highly unlikely You should really consider giving a minimalist distribution a whirl, sometime. If you have to work your way across a pre-set environment to make everything work to your satisfaction, you might as well start off with a minimal distribution where no assumptions have been made and just start building your private empire from scratch. When everything works to your satisfaction, you simply make a snapshot of it and remaster your own installation medium for future re-deployments. > Even Battled with FreeBSD ? Ah, yes. The Linux magazines occasionally shipped a *BSD installation CD. I tried it, I even ran it for a while, but eventually switched back to GNU/Linux. No specific reason back then; everything just worked out-of-the-box, I just didn't see a point in running *BSD when GNU/Linux did the job and had more "real estate" in the magazines. What can I say? I was a fairly lazy child :D I have tried *BSD in recent years, and I even had OpenBSD running on a server for a while. I keep coming back to GNU/Linux because that's where I feel at home. I do try alternatives now and again, such as GNU/Darwin and OpenSolaris, but mainly because it's fun, not out of any desire to leave GNU/Linux behind. I'm currently looking into trying GNU/Hurd and OpenIndiana; have you heard about them? [1] http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html [2] http://everythinglinux.org/redhat62/ss2.jpg
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