Started my Linux journey many years ago with Kubuntu, then went the butterfly route, and settled on Osuse, after a few years curiosity got the better of me and started looking around, Mint, UE, Mandy and finally Kubuntu Lucid. Currently I think its the best KDE distro. Took awhile to get the hang of my own customization but ended up with a product that is fine indeed. Congrats to the Lucid team!
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Re: Original Kubuntu fan
Your an old fan and Im a new user of Kubuntu. Been using Ubuntu for a while and dabbled in Kubuntu. I think I finally found out how to change things around and not screw it up.
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Started my journey from OS/2 to brief tryst with NT and then SUSE 8 in 1999, it was KDE and very good, when x64 came, permanently switched to Ubuntu Gnome x64, few months back, sick and tired of Pulse audio junk, I looked into KDE Kubuntu and WOW!, thats all I can say, back to KDE for good.Comment
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Oh wow I am only 20 and remember using OS/2 as a kid on some machine we had at school, good days. You know I never knew what these things were when I was a kid, I just new the computer that I had at home was an Apple III Plus and it used a 6 1/2 inch floppy. It was so old. But that was the good 'ole days. Now I was introduced to linux about 4 years ago and started off playing with Knoppix, it was so confusing. Then I played with Ubuntu Dapper Drake, then just switched to Windows again. Now I am an avid Kubuntu fan/user and will never EVER go back. Thank you Kubuntu, you have made my life into an everyday KDE fest! =-]
Originally posted by linuxforall"All. Senior. Citizens. Should. Have. Life. Alert."Comment
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DOS 3.1, 3.2, DrDOS 6, Win 3.1... then OS/2 was my first "Alternate" os. Then I went to Mandrake 7.0. Then XP came out - ended up there for games for my kids (this was pre-nintendo!). Got back to linux with mandrake 8 and 9, then pclinuxos, now Kubuntu - tested about 10 other distros but never qualified them as daily users.
BTW apple floppies were 5.25" - later 3.5", IBM had 8"ers!Comment
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mmm... Apple II+ using the Disk ][ 5 1/2" floppies is what I remember.Originally posted by galacticaboy"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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Yup. I'm 'gray in the beard' as well, and when I saw III+ and 6 1/2" I just had to chuckle a bit and say, quietly, "Youngsters!"Originally posted by GreyGeek
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock HolmesComment
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Actually you can still buy 5.25 floppies - even the older 360K (DD) ones. In fact there is a place that sells new 8" floppies, but those really are old.
However what will probably really blow the "youngsters" away is that you can still buy a brand new punched tape reader! Only hard core geeks would know about those ... they don't advertise them on TV.
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It gave me a chuckle, too!Originally posted by SnowhogYup. I'm 'gray in the beard' as well, and when I saw III+ and 6 1/2" I just had to chuckle a bit and say, quietly, "Youngsters!"Originally posted by GreyGeek But, my memory, or what's left of it, is nothing to brag about.
I bought my Apple ][+ in the summer of 1978 in order to create equal tests from a pool of test questions so that jocks couldn't skip test day and then force answers from kids who took it. Worked very well. Before I got two Disk ]['s I used a cassette tape recorder to load and store programs and data. There was only 5 minutes between classes and I barely had enough time to save the data on the last class and load the data for the next class. All 48K of it."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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Oh the days of the 8Mhz CPU. 640K of RAM. 9-pin dot-matrix printers. Parallel ports. 300 baud external 'cradle' modems. BBSs (yes children, there was a time, long a go, when there were no websites). No USB. No CDs. No 2.5" floppies. Compared to what is available today, we lived in the time of dinosaurs!
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock HolmesComment
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Hmmmmm. I started out with the C64. Tape Drive then over to the 5.25. Ahhhh. Simpler times. Where I worked I actually ran across an 8". It was something to see that. I actually still have a bunch of my 5.25. Don't know if they are still readable and what I would even read them on now.
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Ah, you joggled another nearly defunct memory cell. I LOVED BBSs! Dial ups + BBSs, all at 48Kb/s speeds (IF you were running a 56Kb modem), both up and down. The Univ of Neb here in Lincoln had the IRIS BBS system, with connections to TONS of research data that you could download and use, uncluding the univ library system which had their catalog on BBS. The number of simultaneous connections depended on how many serial ports the computer running the BBS had. Then peripheral cards with 4, then 8, then 16 and, IIRC, 64 serial ports modems on each, each connected to a different telephone number, with two or three cards per box, expanded the number of people who could be on line at the same time and exchange nearly instantaneous msgs with each other. One popular BBS system was the WildCat.Originally posted by Snowhog
The only problem was that not every town (local call) had a BBS system, and long distance calls were too expensive to use for BBSs. Then, it all died when CompuServe turned on their network of 800 dial ups. Folks were not limited to local BBS systems, if any. My 800 number was to a CompuServe system in Columbus, Ohio. CompuServe ran out of steam when the Internet appeared, and each local phone company realize they could sell connections and become an ISP. The rest is history, except that now, the big boys are trying to steal the whole works and convert the Internet into their personal property by regulating the passage of packets through the system based on "premium" content. Translation: the rich get faster packets than everyone else."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.Comment
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56kb modem? I remember my 1200 BAUD one! Yikes - now I'm on FIOS at 25mbs!!!Comment
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I remember my grandfather's telegraph key, but I only used it to practice Morse code with a buzzer.
But I do remember, painfully, sitting at an IBM keypunch machine late at night, typing my COBOL code into 80-column cards, to be read into the IBM 360 that Ohio State had in those days (1972). I was pretty sure I wanted nothing whatever to do with computers, after that class was finished.
Funny how things change ....
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Yeah my first programming was IBM card punching in high school for an IBM360 too! Circa 1977Comment
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