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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Welcome Allen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As others have said OT stuff is generally OK so long as labeled but some subjects that aren’t really good to broach:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Splitting the list into technical and non-techical discussion lists (or any other split – the few times that has been suggested here it seemed everyone went
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Whether emacs or vi is better. Especially since everyone knows vi is far superior to emacs. :-)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">As for me I’ve been working on UNIX based applications since the mid-80s and began doing true Systems Administration stuff in the early 90s. In that time
I’ve worked on many variants (AT&T, NCR, SCO UNIX and SCO Xenix, NEC’s Astrix, Apple’s A/UX, SunOS and Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Dynix and FreeBSD). Linux commands typically have far more functionality than their UNIX counterparts so I’ve come to love Linux.
I’ve used Debian, Fedora, RHEL and CentOS and like you have gotten into some of the VMWare stuff though we don’t use it heavily here. We mainly use HP-UX and RHEL here. Also I get involved in many other systems/appliances that have Linux embedded on them.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rich Faulkner<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 29, 2012 11:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Introduction and info about myself<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Welcome Allen!<br>
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I live in metro-Atlanta and get to meetings when I can. Have been with ALE for a couple of years now and learned a lot along the way. Not an admin but rather a support engineer and daily driver of Ubuntu (but having a slow falling-out with Canonical). Most
of the NIX work that I do (OTJ) is RHEL with a heavy dose on military and industrial applications. I also provide free computers and laptops to those in need with emphasis on job seekers and Christian Missionaries in the field internationally. That has mainly
been Ubuntu systems as well...<br>
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Thus I am a recently sworn-in member of the Tux brotherhood having taken the Linux "oath" in 2009 as a daily driver and shunned my Microsoft roots as a MCSE (although I have been dabbling in Linux since 2000).<br>
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Welcome aboard......Rich in Lilburn ("RinL") <o:p></o:p></p>
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