Ron said on Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:02:58 -0800
>People hated but put up with Windows Vista, loved its SP3 (called >Windows 7), hated 8, loved 10, hate 11, but they're just going to keep >putting up with it. I loved Win95 and Win98. They were really cool. Except for one thing... I could feel my mind turning to mush as solutions I used to make batch files (DOS equivalent of shellscripts) for I was now memorizing recipes of points and clicks. Oh, and the fact that making a GUI app was five times harder than a CLI app, and in most cases it had no advantage over the CLI app except "pretty", whatever that means. In October 1998 I found myself 2500 miles from my beloved Los Angeles, newly moved to Orlando, Florida. My nearest client was over 1000 miles away. I took time to re-evaluate my career, and it was at that time I came into possession of a Red Hat 5.0 CD, learned by installing it about 40 times, each of which I screwed things up, learned some stuff, and did it again. Two or three weeks later I went to an ELUG meeting, successfully pretended to be a Linux authority, and pretty much faked it til I maked it. In that fateful ELUG meeting only one person saw through my bullshit: David Billsbrough. Years went by. ELUG became LEAP became GoLUG, and I didn't have to fake it so much. And our 1998-1999 Linux revolutionary zeal morphed into "oh yeah, GNU/Linux is the OS I usually use". Anyway, to this day, I view Linux as a well thought out MS-DOS or even CPM that is multiuser, multitasking, and capable of running a GUI subsystem, and very closely conforming to POSIX. I consider POSIX a miracle. If I want my computer to do something for me, there's almost always a way I can get it to it. This is why I still say Linux is a wishing well... https://www.troubleshooters.com/tpromag/199910/199910.htm#_editors_desk SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
