<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Geoffrey Myers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@serioustechnology.com">lists@serioustechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Damon L. Chesser wrote:<br>
> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 08:51 -0400, Chris Fowler wrote:<br>
>> On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 05:23 -0700, Damon Chesser wrote:<br>
>>> I am curious, having never used Unix, anybody have a clue what he<br>
>>> might have meant?<br>
>> What he meant was that he was not really a UNIX geek and that Linux<br>
>> perplexed him :)<br>
>><br>
>> Sorry, I've never bit**ed about things being automatic. If anything<br>
>> I've complained about things being too automatic making it harder for<br>
>> newbies to learn the internals so they can fix real problems.<br>
>><br>
>> As I said before. When I got into Linux vi was our config tool and we<br>
>> learned more about UNIX then than a noob will learn today in the same<br>
>> amount of time. If you had to download a base X config and then<br>
>> configure it for your desktop using vi then raise your hand....<br>
>> Everyone else get off my lawn!<br>
><br>
> My hand is raised. 30 days to get X running on my first Linux install.<br>
<br>
</div>Yeah, I remember installing my first Slackware from floppies. Two days<br>
later I was dancing a jig because I saw: login:<br>
<br>
A week later, I had X running.<br></blockquote><div><br>Wow! My first X run took a month of evenings and weekends. Between bad timing docs on my monitor and nearly toasting one in tests, X was really not making the SWMBO happy.<br>
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>> Chris<br>
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</font><div class="im">Until later, Geoffrey<br>
<br>
"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent<br>
the government from wasting the labors of the people under<br>
the pretense of taking care of them."<br>
- Thomas Jefferson<br>
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