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So, I've been using Linux since some guru installed it on my 486 in 1994(?). What do I win?

Uhh... At least finished making my hardy heron working after three days of struggling with ATI driver installation and offline packages installation. But now i'm happy, since Clannad game can run in Wine! Yeah!

Well i use Cedega for my Guild Wars

@Slice of Life: Well, I wish I'd discovered it when around that time... now I probably would've been more capable at coding than what my shitty skills make me today >_>

@WK: My (mediocre) 'coding skills' don't have much to with Linux per se. I can use fdisk without killing my system, install a distro without help from mommy, compile a driver or a new mplayer. I'm no kernel hacker by any means nor did I ever intend to become one. Linux is the OS the suits my needs best. Fullstop.

Yes, I'm also on that level of "usability", but if I had discovered it when I was 5 I would have had something else to fool around with and would have probably learned much more than what stupid DOS and Windows 3.1 taught me.

I learned more from DOS and Windows 95 than I did from Windows XP. True story.

>I learned more from DOS and Windows 95 than I did from Windows XP. True story.

I definitely agree with you on that one!

I just got my Ubuntu in the mail about a week ago (I've been having internet problems so I couldn't download it). All I've done so far is install through Windows. I had a hard time figuring out how to simply install a program, but I finally figured it out. I haven't been on it since but I'll be spending a lot of time on it after my exams.

@SoL
I think we installed a couple of 386 Linux boxes back in 1994. At the time I was trying to make a living building Linux-based all-in-one Internet servers. I had a couple of offices connected using a Linux firewall router and a full-time dialup connection to the Internet. I even got one office to read email with pine over telnet into the Linux box because the Windows 3.1 clients, other than Pegasus Mail, were quite poor. (I've never liked Eudora.) They ran their website off this box as well. We had a similar configuration in my office.

I recall our getting the first 486 for the office and being amazed at how quickly it could compile a kernel! Of course, the kernel source was probably only about a third the length that it is today, and a 486 was what, a couple of orders of magnitude slower than modern processors? In those days the only usable distribution was Slackware until RedHat invented the rpm format. We jumped on board that train right away.

Yes, I started with Slackware too, of course. The first distro I installed by myself was then Suse 4.1 IIRC. Definitely a step down the geek ladder.

Now, here's a question to all: Does anybody know an anime scene with a PC running what's unmistakenly a Posix OS? The dominance of MS Windows in Cartoon-Japan is disheartening.

Serial Experiments: Lain has a system with COPLAND OS but I guess that's technically not UNIX. I'd imagine that there are some series where Mac OS X is used... Windows is just so widely known, I guess it's hard to get around it. Even if they tried to mimic KDE's windows and such it'd probably be mistaken for Vista.

>>Does anybody know an anime scene with a PC running what's unmistakenly a Posix OS? The dominance of MS Windows in Cartoon-Japan is disheartening.

Well, even so, Japan has a quite big standing among Linux user communities, or so I've heard.

By the way, an episode of Mnemosyne (the first one?) has a shot where you can see a very early 90's laptop running an undeniably UNIX-based OS.

I've always been wondering, why is it that UNIX, one of the older operating systems around and the foundation behind practically every OS that isn't Windows (or Solaris?), is so highly regarded? Why hasn't something better come along and ousted it?

Solaris *is* UNIX Probably one of the only non-UNIX OSes besides Windows which got recognition other than in specific technical fields was BeOS (along with the old Mac OS).

I'm not technical enough to give an insight on the exact reason why on a professional comp sci level UNIX is highly regarded... but based on my personal day-to-day experience with it, I'd say it has a lot to do with the simpleness of it. Everything that isn't a binary is an editable text file. The foundation of its userspace is based on the integration of several smaller programs that, together, can manage to accomplish very complex tasks. There's more detailed information here.

I'd recommend you to read "In the beginning, there was the command line", an essay by Neal Stephenson written in IIRC 1997 (who then backtracked on several of his points when OS X came about, but that's another story). The essay is interesting on a technical level, but it also conveys a very clear social critique which I found fascinating.

Keep in mind that the Mac OS he talks about there is the old one, which wasn't based on UNIX and was quite crappy when compared to Windows.

I couldn't resist; I had to post that picture of Linus. It comes from here.

Who knew Linus had a tie to animation from birth!

Mac OS X Leopard is and have been a certified fully compliant Unix system, on Intel... so most Unix programs will work with little modification...

Also, I have been using Linux on my PS3 for awhile and also trying out OpenSolaris (open source version of Solaris), but didn't work well on Vmware...

(-_-) lazy, never bothered to post...hmm

me, I started about X months ago (forgot), at first a duelboot with Vista, then I got sick of Vista so I formatted it and installed ubuntu....then well, I felt like playing games that wine couldn't handle, so I installed XP on the side... then that got a virus :x, so I gave up completely on Windows...

IIRC, it was 4 ish(?) months ago when I deleted XP from my computer as well

I've tried in VM quite a few, but eh...

I've installed OpenSolaris as well on my computer (actual install) before, but it didn't like me (ath5k apparently, but couldn't find out how to install it so kinda gave up on it >_>)

other than that, I've been with Ubuntu really...though I've been thinking of trying arch (maybe slackware?) or something (though not sure, based on how much I might have to build from source / or whatever...

Oh wow, old thread, hope this isn't considered necroing <_<

Anyways, started using Ubuntu around 2.5 years ago when I got fed up with Windows (it later turned out not to be Windows' fault, but my faulty RAM, but anyways :P) and switched to Ubuntu since it was pretty much the only one I knew of. A couple of weeks and I went to Kubuntu as I found myself using more KDE apps than GNOME.

I stayed there for a couple of months until I got tired of apt-get with it's dependency hells, headaches when trying to compile stuff and backward repos. I thought of reinstalling but instead started juggling between Linux Mint and Sabayon for some time.

I almost stopped using Linux for some time as no matter what I used or did it pissed me off later, so I looked for a distro that gave you complete control. Found Gentoo, and now 2 years later, still using it and happy with it ^^ I've screwed up my system more times than I can count but at least there was always a solution, even though it's annoying and takes forever to fix sometimes <_<

Ugh, and again I ended up talking too much...