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From: Gary R. Schmidt on 12 Apr 2010 07:58 Whirled.Peas wrote: > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:25:13 +1000, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: > >> Mark Warner wrote: >>> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular basis? >>> Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it enough to consider >>> yourself a "user". >>> >> Well, Solaris and HP-UX and AIX are still in my "desktop" environment, >> but so is Linux, and several variants. >> >> Cheers, >> Gary B-) > > I've not had a chance to work with HP-UX. I hear good things about its > main amdin tool set. From whom?!?!?! It's not so much that it's bad, it just that the OS it is managing is so bloody old! HP-UX is System V Release 2, and has none of the nicer kernel-y bits that are in SVR4, so every time I have to modify something in the kernel I'm zapped straight back to 1987 or so, waiting, waiting waiting... IOW - if you need to change a kernel parameter, NOFILES or NUSERPROC or the like you have to re-link the kernel. (And yes, before you ask, I started with the Spectrum/PA-RISC machines when they came out.) > AIX though . . . my hat is off to you . . . I do not like AIX. Well, all you have to do when you administer an AIX box is think, "How would a main-frame administrator do this?" and then you will be right. That said, I *still* avoid configuring printers, ever since I had the joy of being the first in Oz to get an RT-PC (and, again, first to get an RS6000 when they came out) - I just can't quite get the queue-thing(s) to match the device-thing(s). And I was in the first AIX course taught in Melbourne - amusingly enough by a Singaporean who had been head hunted from Bell to teach it - he knew just as much about AIX as we did!! Cheers, Gary B-)
From: Mark Warner on 12 Apr 2010 09:06 Jack D. Russell, Sr. wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> >> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular >> basis? Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it >> enough to consider yourself a "user". > > Mepis 8.0...worked right OBE. <cough> including wireless. You must be some kind of uber-geek. :O) -- Mark Warner ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: za kAT on 12 Apr 2010 09:45 On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:06:10 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > Jack D. Russell, Sr. wrote: >> Mark Warner wrote: >>> >>> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular >>> basis? Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it >>> enough to consider yourself a "user". >> >> Mepis 8.0...worked right OBE. <cough> including wireless. > > You must be some kind of uber-geek. :O) Looks like BB has won then... Linux is obviously only a minority interest around here :) -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com
From: Mark Warner on 12 Apr 2010 12:49 za kAT wrote: > Mark Warner wrote: >> Jack D. Russell, Sr. wrote: >>> Mark Warner wrote: >>>> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular >>>> basis? Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it >>>> enough to consider yourself a "user". >>> Mepis 8.0...worked right OBE. <cough> including wireless. >> You must be some kind of uber-geek. :O) > > Looks like BB has won then... Linux is obviously only a minority interest > around here :) Which will no doubt go into rapid decline any day now. (Although I'm surprised at the number of Linux developers that post here.) -- Mark Warner MEPIS Linux Registered Linux User #415318 ....lose .inhibitions when replying
From: za kAT on 12 Apr 2010 13:58
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:49:10 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > za kAT wrote: >> Mark Warner wrote: >>> Jack D. Russell, Sr. wrote: >>>> Mark Warner wrote: >>>>> Just curious. How many here use desktop Linux on a regular >>>>> basis? Doesn't need to be your primary platform, but use it >>>>> enough to consider yourself a "user". >>>> Mepis 8.0...worked right OBE. <cough> including wireless. >>> You must be some kind of uber-geek. :O) >> >> Looks like BB has won then... Linux is obviously only a minority interest >> around here :) > > Which will no doubt go into rapid decline any day now. (Although I'm > surprised at the number of Linux developers that post here.) Thanks so much for the luv, Mark. <sigh> Vote for me, StubbyToes, for $Pricelessware$ 2011 Webmeister? -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - www.zakATsKopterChat.com |