On 15/09/13 23:57, Brett Parker wrote:
On 15 Sep 15:36, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 14/09/13 15:11, Bob wrote:
Gentlemen & Ladies
I decided to join your 'club' as over the past 10 years or so the MS attitude that they have the right etc etc. Much prefer the better and free path that is Linux.
Welcome to the list: mostly harmless^h^h^h^generally a friendly and helpful lot.
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"""Welcome to the list: mostly harml^generally a friendly and helpful lot.""" ?!!?
(^h being interpreted as ctrl-h, and that being delete a character... I'm guess you meant ^w^w, but hey ;)
Bit of Usenet creeping in - read 'huh-huh-huh' for h^h^h - but you knew that...
/snip/
Mine was Linux FT,which was taken overby the SuSE people. I didn't like SuSE and since I know a Debian developer, guess what I chose to replace FT?
I started with Peanut Linux, then Slackware, then Redhat 5.2 (it was more broken than you can believe), then SuSE (can't remember the version number), then Debian Slink... and am still running a Debian system now... and one day, I'll get round to packaging the last few things and becoming a Real DD.
I have Debian on this netbook thingy and on a laptop - and Lenny (IIRC) on the megabox (but with microcapabilities). First two are dual-boot, and the old full tower has a caddy. It obviously likes Linux because it will not work with anything NT-based. Works OK with Debian, FT and up to Win 98.
That's when I found Linux Mint 11 and I am now on Olivia. My favourite desktop is Mate. I do most of the PC maintenance for my friends and as I am now retired, I'm slowly converting them all to use Mint.
Listmembers got me started on Mint, and i use it almost exclusively now.
My only problem with mint is that they don't follow a particular secure set of procedures of adding new repositories (in as much as it'll cheerfully do it in the background for you without asking, or would last time I looked!).
Now you're making me feel insecure.
/snip/
Reciprocated. Well, you have all 'grades' here. Some of the butch ones wrestle Pythons...
Less wrestle, more writhe in the infinite possibilities and the generally lovely readable code :)
My Pythonic culpabilitise reside in a nice thick book which I keep meaning to learn things from.
I might just get round to it now I have the Pacemaker...