I'm afraid that I'm a little limited in your professional area, but
programming was one of the things that caught my attention in Linux; C,
as well, and a few other languages, such as forth.
A unix-like OS just seemed to good to pass up. The learning curve has
been pretty steep as I work in AutoCAD and programming has been limited
to very simple autolisp routines to aid in large projects, but as I said
I see much more of a future in Linux than in the "other guy."
Thanks for the welcome aboard!
Regards,
Bob
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> Robert Russell wrote:
> >
> > In mid-1997 I began tinkering with Linux. Slackware, Debian,...
> >
> > A mechanical engineer I was then working for told me that it was a dead
> > OS, merely my rebellion against Bill Gates and M$.
> >
> > It really began, for me, as a way to at least approach the OS I was
> > introduced to on Sparc Stations.
> >
> > I've got a lot to learn, but that is what I like about it, as well as
> > it's stability.
> >
> > Pretty strong heart beat for a dead OS. HP, IBM, Oracle, Intel,
> > Informix....what do these guys know that I don't?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
> Hi Bob,
> Welcome aboard Linux!
> On May 8th of last year I had my umpteenth crash while running Win95 on
> my home system. I program professionally, and while I have to tolerate
> 2 to 4 crashes a day at work, I decided I didn't have to tolerate
> crashes at home. In 1995 a friend of mine showed me a new OS he'd found
> called Linux. He had it dual booting on his NT machine. He got eight
> copies of Doom running in the demo mode simultaneously, whereas only
> four would run adequately on the NT side. And more importantly, he said
> it hadn't crash once since he installed it. "Sure, sure" I thought, and
> dismissed his toy as a curious backwater of computers. Win95, which I
> had recently installed, was where things were going. In 1998 I thought
> of that demo and went looking to see if Linux had survived the
> intervening years. Had it! Wow!
> I've had only one crash of Linux, last fall while running 5.3, and that
> was caused by 1) the result of a program I wrote while trying to learn C
> and 2) my lack of knowledge about how to pop up virtual terminals to
> regain control of programs that have run amuck. During the winter
> months I left my box on for weeks at a time, bringing it down and
> unplugging it only to avoid possible lighting strikes this spring.
> Knowing your OS won't give up on you is a comforting thought. Not
> having to (re)buy those "doctor kits" that supposedly prevent Win95
> crashes, or aid in recovery when it does, is also nice. The biggest
> thing though, is the FUN Linux restores to computing!
> JLK
> --
>
> JLK
> Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
> right.
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