Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-08 Thread Neil Thompson
55, In IT since 1980 (COBOL, punch cards, etc). Linux - SLS (April(ish) 1994) - Slackware (Shortly afterwards) - Red Hat Mother's Day (May 1995) and been on Redhattish stuff ever since. Currently chief linux geek at an engineering copmpany. -- Cheers! (Relax, don't worry, have

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-06 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/06/2013 05:51 AM, Cristian Sava issued this missive: Hi ALL, I am 60 and am running Linux since RedHat 4.2, always RH/Fedora. I'm IT Professional since 1977 and I'm now using F19 on desktops and servers with great success. I also use Centos but I'm more comfortable with Fed

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-06 Thread Cristian Sava
Hi ALL, I am 60 and am running Linux since RedHat 4.2, always RH/Fedora. I'm IT Professional since 1977 and I'm now using F19 on desktops and servers with great success. I also use Centos but I'm more comfortable with Fedora. Congrats to all of you making this wonderful dis

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:05 AM, wrote: > if you want numbers, you should setup a web pool. E-mail replies, no > matter how nice they are, won't give you numbers. And any such numbers will be self-selecting and hence unreliable. I don' t know how many people are on this list, but regular poste

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-05 Thread fernando
Hi, >>> By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring >>> in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more >>> fellow >>> retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here >>> have >>> such numbers, or know of a source from whence to get the

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-05 Thread Bob Marcan
> On 12/04/2013 10:25 AM, Beartooth wrote: > > By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring > > in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more fellow > > retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here have > > such numbers, or know of a

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-05 Thread DB
On 12/04/2013 11:14 PM, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Subject: Fedora's audience From: Beartooth Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:25:02 + (UTC) Hi all, Going on 72, worked with computors(!) before they became computers (started 1963) using Fedora since FC6, both on desktop & lapto

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread Roger
On 12/05/2013 12:24 PM, Edik Landaveri wrote: I unite my voice of thanks as well to the developersmaintainers.marketerstestersand everyone involved with it?"THANK YOU SO MUCH"! Me Too! I enjoy Fedora Roger -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread Edik Landaveri
I unite my voice of thanks as well to the developersmaintainers.marketerstestersand everyone involved with it?"THANK YOU SO MUCH"! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listi

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread David G . Miller
Tim yahoo.com.au> writes: > > Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2013, Frank sent: > > Guess all the 'younger' members are afraid to reply :) > > Oi!I'm middle-aged. > > I've played with computers since before the PC days (sending punch cards > in the post), ignored the C64 but used altern

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 04 December 2013, Frank sent: > Guess all the 'younger' members are afraid to reply :) Oi!I'm middle-aged. I've played with computers since before the PC days (sending punch cards in the post), ignored the C64 but used alternatives in the same era, had fun with the Amig

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread eoconno...@gmail.com
Nonsense!so far I'm the "youngest"...I've been using Linux since Fedora 9..& it has been a love-hate marriage.but I'm not leaving.EVER! This OS has got to be the BEST I've ever used!! To the developersmaintainers.marketerstestersand everyone involved with this di

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread Steven Rosenberg
I always turn to Fedora when I have new hardware because it's the easiest way to get the latest kernels, drivers and other bits that give that hardware the best chance of working. If it matters, I'm 47. -- Steven Rosenberg http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog http://blogs.dailynews.com/click stevenhro

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
> Guess all the 'younger' members are afraid to reply :) > > I am 72 (73 next month ) and have been running Linux since 1997...Fedora > since 2010. along with Debian Sid and > Windows 7. > Best of the season to all developers-contributors and users. > > > > -- I am 38 yrs young and have been u

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread Frank
On 04/12/13 03:47 PM, ergodic wrote: OK I am 82. My first Fedora Core install was FC-3 and before that Red Hat 4 if my memory does not trick me. Today running in different boxes, F-18, F-19, F-20beta. Multibooting Debian Wheezy, F-19 and Windows 8.1. My most sincere thanks to all the developer

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread ergodic
OK I am 82. My first Fedora Core install was FC-3 and before that Red Hat 4 if my memory does not trick me. Today running in different boxes, F-18, F-19, F-20beta. Multibooting Debian Wheezy, F-19 and Windows 8.1. My most sincere thanks to all the developers and contributors. Well done. M. A.

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread davidschaak1
Sorry for top posting. This phone doesn't allow bottom posting. I'm 57 years old and I have been using linux, more on than off, since 1997, and exclusively since 2003 or so. I find it is more stable than either windows or macos and more usable than dos, even at the command prompt. Hth Dave Se

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/04/2013 10:25 AM, Beartooth wrote: By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more fellow retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here have such numbers, or know of a source from

Re: Fedora's audience

2013-12-04 Thread David
On 12/4/2013 1:25 PM, Beartooth wrote: > > Recent exchanges here and in related places have reminded me > strongly of long discussions held on RedHat lists fifteen or twenty years > ago. > > Was (now is) RH/F, and Linux generally, *for* all & sundry? Or > was/is it essentially a p