On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:04:51AM -0400, Nick Floersch wrote: > <RAMBLE> > ON the other hand, since VAGUE is the only ~quite~ active Linux oriented > support group in the area, having more is not a bad thing, no matter > what. But I like that VAGUE is general - "UNIX" enthusiasts - it doesn't > say "LINUX Enthusiasts". I don't know about all of the other VAGUE > members, but I use OSX (i.e. BSD) more than Linux. Before that I used > IRIX, NeXTStep (i.e. the old OSX), and BeOS (not UNIX, but POSIX which > feels close at the shell level) on a very frequent basis.
It's about 90% AIX for me now, for sysadminning. I'm about to pick some Linux or BSD distro at random to put on an older personal desktop machine I'm about to wipe, though. (It's factory-issue HP Pavillion 4535 hardware, if you want to make a recommendation.) > Knowing UNIX > as a generic system made moving between systems really very simple when > we consider how complex any one system is. Having a support group which > is somewhat dedicated to the generic system makes a bunch of sense to > me. Yes, keeping it VAGUE is great! I prefer to remain agnostic about my choice of *nix-flavored OS. Bonnie
