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duane
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| NeddySeagoon wrote: | Team,
After a week of the poll, we have 63 votes cast. |
That looks like about the same number of people who posted on the original thread. |
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user
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:15 am Post subject: |
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Register here in year 2004, so I am at least 10+19 years old.  |
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flysideways
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https://forums.gentoo.org/statistics.php
Many of the listed Most Active and Most Viewed Topics were started in 2003 -2005.
The Most Users Ever Online Date is from the last couple of years, 2021.
I'm guessing most users of Gentoo have done so for a while.
I still learn stuff on a regular basis, some of which I had known before ... |
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stefan11111
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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| flysideways wrote: | https://forums.gentoo.org/statistics.php
Many of the listed Most Active and Most Viewed Topics were started in 2003 -2005.
The Most Users Ever Online Date is from the last couple of years, 2021.
I'm guessing most users of Gentoo have done so for a while.
I still learn stuff on a regular basis, some of which I had known before ... |
Most of those topics have been dead for almost 20 years.
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szatox
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 3:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Many of the listed Most Active and Most Viewed Topics were started in 2003 -2005. |
"ATI radeon Sticky" going on for 76* pages.
Still nowhere near SystemD wars, which don't show in those statistics, since mods started chopping topics into 20p long chapters.
*actually, around 120 pages, once we add 2 follow-up topics, which is a bit closer, but likely still loses |
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stefan11111
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Still nowhere near SystemD wars, which don't show in those statistics, since mods started chopping topics into 20p long chapters. |
And where would I find these topics?
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Mar 15, 2023 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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stefan11111,
They are mostly locked as the discussion descends from technical into pantomime, so there is little reason to put any effort into finding them.
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Spanik
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Haven't a clue what each option means. "Too old to rock 'n roll, too young to die" wasn't an option.
Turning 54 this year. And yep that "too old to rock 'n roll and too young to die" is very to the point. The mechanics and cerebral functions are leaving me clearly. But still too good to just go to sleep and not wake up the next morning. Meaning I feel like I'm still on top of the game to keep a Gentoo system running but at the same time getting to stupid to do so.
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NeddySeagoon
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Spanik,
Your search engine is your friend, all Gentoo users know that :)
You are ages with my son too, so just a bairn. :)
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stefan11111
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You are ages with my son too, so just a bairn. |
And older than my father.
Spanik, what do you not like about rock music?
There are some very good bands like metallica and iron maiden.
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miket
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When he was 14, Paul McCartney wrote a song about growing old. For a couple of weeks I'll still be at that age he sang about.
My first programming job was in college on punched cards. I never saw the mainframe where the processing was done but sure remember waiting for the printed output where I could see whether my program did what I wanted it to do. It wasn't free: real money was exchanged for CPU time and pages printed. When you took a class you were allotted a given amount of money.
I was amazed at the TRS-80 when it came out: a computer that you didn't have to timeshare with anyone else and didn't run up a cent of CPU charge. After getting a job programming one, I was back at school with a 300-baud acoustic-coupled modem (whee!) paying for login time but not having to deal with punched cards. I also got a lot of experience with bit operations on that Z-80 processor.
So does that date me well enough? |
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wuzzerd
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I remember punching Fortran onto cards  My high point in gentoo was answering a question posted by Neddy. Just one though...
Whenever I think I'm too old for gentoo I use the housemate's arch machine running gnome under system D. My Dr. says that's bad for y blood pressure. |
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mistah_monocle
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| wuzzerd wrote: | | Whenever I think I'm too old for gentoo I use the housemate's arch machine running gnome under system D. My Dr. says that's bad for y blood pressure. |
Hey, man I'll happily use Hannah Montanna linux for the rest of my life, as long as it's not Windows 11! 
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wuzzerd
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| Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2023 3:18 pm Post subject: |
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| mistah_monocle wrote: | | wuzzerd wrote: | | Whenever I think I'm too old for gentoo I use the housemate's arch machine running gnome under system D. My Dr. says that's bad for y blood pressure. |
Hey, man I'll happily use Hannah Montanna linux for the rest of my life, as long as it's not Windows 11! |
Nah, I use gentoo because it just does what I want. I went to linux from mdsos after trying windoze 95. |
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mistah_monocle
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This actually has me thinking, to the people on here who tried linux in the 90s, what was the first distro you tried?
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NeddySeagoon
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mistah_monocle,
Red Hat 6.1 or 6.2 from a magazine DVD cover mount in 1999.
That just qualifies for the 90's.
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Spanik
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| Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2023 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| stefan11111 wrote: | | NeddySeagoon wrote: |
You are ages with my son too, so just a bairn. |
And older than my father.
Spanik, what do you not like about rock music?
There are some very good bands like metallica and iron maiden. |
Where did I wrote I don't like rock? I admit that I'm not a great fan of Metallica after having had to listen to "master of puppets" for 8 hours straight because of a strike on the radio and it was the only cd we had in the office. (long before we even had internet at the office) I'm rather omnivorous with music. From AC/DC to ZZ Top by the way of Bach, Celtic, Deep Purple, EL&P, Front 242, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jethro Tull, Korpiklaani....
| mistah_monocle wrote: | | This actually has me thinking, to the people on here who tried linux in the 90s, what was the first distro you tried? |
Oh, my journey went from DOS to W95 to NT4.0 sp6.0a (the best OS ever!) to linux. First was a version of Suse, 4.2 I think. Then came a RH 6 something. But I went back to W2000. Then after loosing weeks of work because of the stupid way windows manages hard disks with those drive letters (ok, I formatted the wrong disk after adding one) I went to linux for personal use.
I first tried Debian because others at the office used it. Could get a prompt but not anything else. Tried Suse and RH again but while one gave me the application I sought I missed a lot of others and the other way round. Tried Knoppix but didn't get it working on a hard disk. Then the spanking new Ubuntu that was all the rage. Couldn't even get it booting on my pc. Finally gave Gentoo a try. Just followed the handbook and got a booting pc with all the applications I needed. Never went anywhere else.
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stefan11111
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| Spanik wrote: |
Where did I wrote I don't like rock? |
here:
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Spanik
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| stefan11111 wrote: | | Spanik wrote: |
Where did I wrote I don't like rock? |
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"Too old to rock 'n roll, too young to die" is a song by Jethro Tull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcmJThaACHQ The first one that came up.
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nikolis
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| mistah_monocle wrote: | | This actually has me thinking, to the people on here who tried linux in the 90s, what was the first distro you tried? |
Suse dvd boxed version |
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mistah_monocle
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I would have loved to have experienced the days of install discs. Although the availability of isos today is pretty amazing
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Goverp
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| nikolis wrote: | | mistah_monocle wrote: | | This actually has me thinking, to the people on here who tried linux in the 90s, what was the first distro you tried? |
Suse dvd boxed version |
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Spanik
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| nikolis wrote: | | mistah_monocle wrote: | | This actually has me thinking, to the people on here who tried linux in the 90s, what was the first distro you tried? |
Suse dvd boxed version |
And it came with printed manuals as well inside the box.
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szatox
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| Quote: | | And it came with printed manuals as well inside the box. |
Lucky you, my first attempt was with Mandrake which came as 4CD big installer + 4 CDs with extra packages.
If only there was _anything_ to tell me that rpms are supposed to be installed with some tool already in the system rather than double-clicked...
Yeah, well, it ended up being too vanilla for anything but a fancy music player. Ubuntu a few years later did a much better job replacing windows. |
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| Spanik wrote: | | And it came with printed manuals as well inside the box. |
Red Hat 9 came to me with a separate rpm for mp3 support |
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