Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/20/07, mike ledoux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sure, but finding new things to complain about is at least half of the fun! Back in my day, we only had three things to complain about, and we liked it that way! -- "One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / And the next it's rolling over me"

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Freeman
mike ledoux writes: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:02:40PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: > > mike ledoux writes: > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: > > > > ...oh crap! > > ... > > > > > That is a problem... with your mail reader. If it bothers you, I > > >

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:02:40PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote: > mike ledoux writes: > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: > > > ...oh crap! > ... > > > That is a problem... with your mail reader. If it bothers you, I > > recommend switching to a mail reader that do

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Bill Freeman
mike ledoux writes: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: > > ...oh crap! ... > That is a problem... with your mail reader. If it bothers you, I > recommend switching to a mail reader that doesn't have that problem, > rather than complaining. Then I'd have other th

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread mike ledoux
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0400, Tyson Sawyer wrote: > ...oh crap! I replied to a message that came from a list, but when I > was about to click send I see that my reply doesn't go back to where > the message came from. Now off to edit the To: field before I can > click send. That is a

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On 3/20/07, Mark Komarinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I started using Linux in the summer of '92 (get off my lawn!), so it was even pre-distro. IIRC, there has always been an IP stack of some sort, since I had a Western Digital *mumble* ISA Ethernet controller that I could use to network with o

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 03/20/2007 11:43 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > On 3/20/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> By time my friend, Jim Hart, convinced me to try Linux, Slackware was >> out (with an IP stack!), so I'm not really sure what Yggdrasil >> supported, myself. > > Yggdrasil was last released circa 19

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/20/07, Bill McGonigle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By time my friend, Jim Hart, convinced me to try Linux, Slackware was out (with an IP stack!), so I'm not really sure what Yggdrasil supported, myself. Yggdrasil was last released circa 1995. It did work. I didn't use it much myself, so I

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Charles Farinella
Bill McGonigle wrote: Funny thing is I'm doing some work later today on a new project using a Slackware-based distro. (first time in ~12 years) FWIW, I'm wiping my Ubuntu 6.10 this week and putting Slack 11 back on. I'm just too stupid for these modern distributions. :-) --charlie

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 19, 2007, at 17:54, Ben Scott wrote: /me ponders running early Linux distros in a VM, for the hack value... I've got some InfoMagic discs with floppy images around here somewhere (frikkin' packrat) if you want them. I'm curious if there's a VM that emulates an old enough PC for them

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/19/07, Bill Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yggdrasil ruelz! Yeah, and it was my first. But do you still run it? /me ponders running early Linux distros in a VM, for the hack value... -- "One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / And the next it's rolling over me"

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-19 Thread Bill Freeman
Ben Scott writes: > ... > > Eight people and only 14 OS distros? I'm disappointed. > > Yggdrasil ruelz! Yeah, and it was my first. But do you still run it? ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.or

Re: MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-19 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/19/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With nine people present (and one of them a non-combatant), how many distros would you expect? We heard about: Debian, Slackware, OpenBSD, OS X, Fedora, RedHat, CentOS, SuSE, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, more RedHat, Knoppix, Gentoo, Libranet and som

MonadLUG notes, 8-March-2007: Pitch your distro

2007-03-19 Thread Ted Roche
The second Thursday of the month is the usual meeting of the Monadnock Area Linux User Group, MonadLUG, at the SAU #1 offices on Hancock Road in Peterborough. This month, Ray Côté ran a discussion on "Pitch Your Distro" and Bill Sconce took on the "Man Page of the Month" on the command tac. You wo