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   Aragorn wrote:   
   > J.O. Aho wrote:   
      
   > And they will reboot without a reason, insist on installing a firewall for   
   > consumergrade internet connections and desperately go looking for antivirus   
   > software that runs on GNU/Linux - and of which they don't realize that it's   
   > intended to scan for *Windows* viruses... :-/   
      
   Don't forget that they have the urge to defragmentate the hard drives too,   
   they seem to be obsessed by it.   
      
      
   >> Back in the days when I installed NetBSD on my Amiga 2000, you had to read   
   >> a bit of documentation before you managed to install it and I think thats   
   >> a good thing, as you get some understanding of the system you are using.   
   >   
   > My actual computing experiences started off before I had a computer of my   
   > own, and back then the commonplace OS was DOS 3.30.  My very own first PC   
   > came with DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.0, but I only used that for about 6 months,   
   > until 32-bit OS/2 became available for retail purchase.  I then used OS/2   
   > 2.0 and 2.1 for 5 years.   
      
   I begun with a VIC20 back in the early 80's, not that much more than playing   
   games, but some simple programs in BASIC. Upgraded within the Commodore   
   product family, all the way up to Amiga 1200. In the mid 90's tested NetBSD on   
   the Amiga 2000, as I wanted to have something similar to what I had at   
   university, where all computers had SunOS. Wasn't until late 90's that I got   
   my first IBM compatible PC, running microsoft98, which had a load of frequent   
   blue screens when ever you the least wanted them, so decided to try out RedHat   
   6.0. The computer got a lot more stable, never even bothered to set up a dual   
   boot, Linux had all I needed and it was similar to SunOS/NetBSD from user   
   point of view.   
   Got a bit sad on RedHat when they released 8.0, it was buggy and ugly with   
   that crappy gnome2 (got anti-alias work a lot better in Gnome that it ever   
   done in gnome2), so I stayed with my RH7.3, upgraded it heavily, GCC3,   
   GLIBC2.3, KERNEL2.6 and even gnome2-libs. But it was a heck of a lot of work   
   to keep the system up to date after EOL for RH7.3, after a year I got a bit   
   tired of making my own RPMs and checking for bugs/security-holes, so switched   
   to another distro that gave me some freedom and had to switch to KDE as   
   support for gnome had more or less been dropped in every distro.   
      
      
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     //Aho   
      
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