<div dir="ltr"><div>I'm proud to wear the title of Geezer!</div><div>Btw... Linux Mint FTW!<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 11:05 PM David Jackson via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">> Many of us, wear white beards, know the pain. <br><div><br></div><div>I am so glad to have so many Linux geezers around here. My first install was Slackware 3.0 in 1996 on a 386(?). Needed a kernel recompile just to hear sound on the sound blaster card and get the CD-ROM to work. I never did get X to work on that machine under Slack. XFree86 simply couldn't support my Matrox video card. The first time I saw X running (with good ol' fvwm and WindowMaker and Afterstep) was with Red Hat 3.0.3, which included the Metro-X server, which *did* support that video card. Waaaaaaaay cool. I gradually moved away from OS2 Warp after that. Although Warp 4 was pretty spiffy looking. Anyway, I used Slackware for many many years as my daily driver. Imagine my surprise when I started trying Ubuntu and Debian in the early 2010's! Worlds apart!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 2, 2021 at 12:32 PM Chuck Payne via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Does anyone remember back in the day when you want to use Gnome you had to install ICEWM? <br><br><div>Staying up late to compile WindowMaker for 4 hours with the latest Xorg.<br><br>Or compiling Linux Kernel so you can use an audio card or graphic card? <br><br>Or changing your shell from sh to bash. <br><br>Kids today don't know the pain. <br><br>I tried to explain to my 16 years today Linux so easy to use, but there was a time you would sit and eat pizza and drink beer while praying to the compiler Gods that the new kernel you compiled does crap out, Or waking up to find out you were missing on a library that cause you to want to scream at the sky for wasting a weekend trying to compile. <br><br>I even fired up WindowMaker to show what we had back in the day thought it was cool, that it was the Winowmager we used with Xorg and the pain we had to do get X working. <br><br>That when KDE came along was so cool but was so heavy to use. Gnome wasn't a real WindowManger because you had to install something IceWM to use. </div><div><br></div><div>Hell, even the shells kids are using make life simple, have you played with ZSH. So pretty and easy to use, ugh. They need to feel the pain of sh and even worse tcsh. </div><div><br>Many of us, wear white beards, know the pain. <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Terror PUP a.k.a<br>Chuck "PUP" Payne<br>-----------------------------------------<br>Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux.<br>-----------------------------------------<br>openSUSE -- Terrorpup<br>openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member<br>skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup<br>freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein<br>Register Linux Userid: 155363<br> <br>openSUSE Community Member since 2008. </div></div></div></div></div></div>
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