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
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From: Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net>
Sender: users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:25:02
To: <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Fedora's audience
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 plaything of the Alpha Plus Technoids? Which
*should* it be?
That distinction applied to shoes and ships and sealing wax, to
cabbages and kings; i.e., all the way from designing new apps for GUI,
for CLI only, or for some compromise -- to what sorts of posters and
questions ought to be welcome or unwelcome on the public lists.
I remember pointing out repeatedly that when the Baby Boomers
began to retire, and cease to be bound to their employers' systems, some
fraction of them would take up Linux -- and it wouldn't need a very big
fraction of their numbers to make a substantial difference to Linux.
To the best of my recollection, that issue never resolved into
any consensus. RedHat changed its whole strategy, and suddenly many of us
had far more urgent concerns than just the philosophic ones.
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 them?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
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