Re: boy am I glad I have a basic understanding of linux thanks to you guys.

2021-07-04 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Heh, yeah. I started out with one of the first actual distributions from Red Hat the first year they introduced it in 1996. Red hat has been in the Linux arena for at least 25 years at this point. I am also one of the few founding members of PLUG still active on the list (we got our start with t

Re: boy am I glad I have a basic understanding of linux thanks to you guys.

2021-07-04 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
correctionI now have windows on my laptop but my main computer is linuxand all of my computers between 199? and now have been Linux. Hm, I can't remember if the other laptop I had was a windows box or linux so there's that. On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 12:20 PM Michael wrote: > > That sounds li

Re: boy am I glad I have a basic understanding of linux thanks to you guys.

2021-07-04 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
That sounds like about the same time I came around. If I remember right it was the installfest at glendale community college. Redddhat didn't work for me so the next month I took ithe computer to the monthly meeting and had Hans put windows back on. I don't know why but I went to the next ins

Re: boy am I glad I have a basic understanding of linux thanks to you guys.

2021-07-04 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss said on Sat, 3 Jul 2021 15:00:25 -0700 >Yep, >Some of us even have experiences going back to kernel .099. :) wow, >it’s been almost 30 years. > >-Eric I don't know which kernel, but my first Linux was Redhat 5.1 in October 1998. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured

Re: boy am I glad I have a basic understanding of linux thanks to you guys.

2021-07-04 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2021-07-03 19:18, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: I like the plug group, why try to chime in when I can. Some environments are almost toxic trying to ask question or get support (ahem, arch linux chats), but try to not be those folks. My first exposure to unix was in 99, my first t

Re: boy am I glad I have a basic understanding of linux thanks to you guys.

2021-07-04 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Outstanding!! On 2021-07-03 11:16, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: Today I ran the update manager to get the new version of darktable and it failed w/o telling me why.Because of the knowledge I attained from you over the years I was able to open a terminal and to run apt and find out what w

LibreOffice conf logo design contest

2021-07-04 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
moin moin, LibreOffice has a conference coming up in September. They have a logo design contest going on for the conference. https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/06/22/design-the-libreoffice-conference-2021-logo/ ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org