William Roddy wrote: > (though I know old guys aren't the throbbing majority of the Linux > movement!).
You might be surprised, then. It seems the only prerequisite is passion and willingness. And from what I've seen, there's no age limit on that. The average age of the active linux community actually has a much smaller percentage of youngsters than I'd expected. > But, as I said, the fact that you folks are there is wonderful. Keep > up the excellent work and the tremendous enthusiasm. It's a bright > spot in my day. Likewise in your enthusiasm! > It would be nice to hear what flavors of Linux your members are using, > and what they use them for. I currently have one ubuntu box at work that I use as a general purpose desktop. It's configured to use fluxbox, with a combination os evolution and tsclient to interface with the Microsoft portion of the network, and ssh to deal with the *nix portion, including the OS X machine. <irony> Mac OS X 10.[34] ship with an ssh server installed by default in the base system. Ubuntu Linux requires an additional package be downloaded and installed. <jab>Which one's the desktop system again?</jab> </irony> My last linux box at home was a gentoo system (also fluxbox) that played a pretty decent game of quake. (`emerge quake3`). It's currently out of service at the moment, serving as my freebsd5 learning box. > But that's today. Who knows about tomorrow! That's the fun of it, for me. Right on! Play and experiment with as much as possible. Our group also has a fair number of *BSD fans, if you're so inclined. We also seem to be accumulating mac users... ;) Cheers! Tim Hammerquist -- "There are some benefits to high blood pressure", Bob mused as another mosquito exploded. -- Bulwer-Lytton contest entry, author unknown. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
