---------- > From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: What's a debian kid look like? > Date: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:24 PM > Am I a Microsoft-branded > pinko 'cause I like open-source?"
There's worse things to be branded. White male, 66, Oregon, college but no degree (and not especially sorry), amateur scientist/innovator, independent left social activist, new here and pre-new to Linux. This was one of the few posts I can fully understand. I'm trying to get Debian going on my laptop that someone gave me for parts. Debian because another friend reccomended it, Linux (w/o GUI) because MS systems get ever more complicated, consumerist and update-dependent. I tend to think Linux was designed by nerds (you'll agree?) but also for nerds. But with Linux I hope to be able to eventually learn to correct the many deficiencies I find in most programs, or at least to talk about them to someone who might listen, and go beyond that to writing socially meaningful software. I only recently moved from DOS (and CPM not so long ago) to W95, and still wish there were more up-to-date DOS programs available. Dan Robinson 541-465-4790 350 Pearl St. #1105 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eugene OR 97401 http://www.efn.org/~danrob/ My "Golden Rule" (based on versions from several cultures): "Think of yourself not as just an individual, but as part of all the partnerships and communities to which you belong, including humanity, with their gains and losses as your gains and losses. Love thy neighbors.
