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Location: France, Languedoc-Roussillon (pre frontiere espagnol)
Distribution: Puppy Linux!
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time when you're young or not so young!!
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Originally Posted by ChrisScott
22, Brighton, england.
It's amazing how young everyone is...
...or maybe we're the only ones with the time/inclination to fill in the servey. hmmmm?
Some people aren't s young as all that you know But to go on to another subject: I'm trying to decide between Arch & LFS At the moment I've just uninstalled Mandriva2007.0 as it didn't stop crashing(due to be honest, I think to all the programs bizarre I kept adding) & got to the stage of non-boot. A question of the OS or the PC out the window. I couldn't keep as net contact for more than afew hours either. I was going crazy! I've just read another mail. Maybe I'll have a look at Slackware too; decisions ...decisions...
I'm 47 yrs old male making me on of the oldest in this forum. Been using computer since 1988 (Dos 3.1 and 3.2) switched to windows in 1989 (?) and started using linux in 2001 (red hat). Been a linux addict since then.
Location: France, Languedoc-Roussillon (pre frontiere espagnol)
Distribution: Puppy Linux!
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Oldest? You're beaten!!
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Originally Posted by dodjie60
I'm 47 yrs old male making me on of the oldest in this forum. Been using computer since 1988 (Dos 3.1 and 3.2) switched to windows in 1989 (?) and started using linux in 2001 (red hat). Been a linux addict since then.
I don't know when you're bithday is, but I'll be 49 years old in 2 weeks, so I guess I beat you?
I built my first computer 7 years ago, with a Duron 1300, & went n to Mandrake because I was too broke (luckily, looking back!!) to buy Windows. I 'learnt' Linux, being stuck in bed for a while (ah! the 'problems' of old age!) and now I'm a fervent windows hater.
I'm looking for a distro nw tha runs on RPM's, or smething that makes it as easy to keep track of installations, & that I can adapt to my own specs..
apparently there are 15 peopel who lied about their age either here or more liklly when they signed up as the stupid COPPA rules ban under 13s from forums!
not that i agree with them at all!
>> "I'm looking for a distro nw tha runs on RPM's"
dont hesitate ... i think you can try fedora ... sometime the first installation(probably non-rpm distro i'm afraid) counts ... if not you will be kind of "homeless" like me ... ^_^
I don't know when you're bithday is, but I'll be 49 years old in 2 weeks, so I guess I beat you?
I built my first computer 7 years ago, with a Duron 1300, & went n to Mandrake because I was too broke (luckily, looking back!!) to buy Windows. I 'learnt' Linux, being stuck in bed for a while (ah! the 'problems' of old age!) and now I'm a fervent windows hater.
I'm looking for a distro nw tha runs on RPM's, or smething that makes it as easy to keep track of installations, & that I can adapt to my own specs..
Anyone out there got an idea?
As my login name states "Dodjie60" I was born in 1960 March.
As for RPM's, I suggest Fedora or OpenSuse which is what I'm using now, triple boot.
i was born in 1978 so i'll be 29 years old on the 27 th of may...
i'm a very young medicine doctor...
a beautiful 1.80m ,blond,green bright eyes piece of man...
i've started using pc in 1991 with ms-dos 5.0 then win 3.1 and so on mamma microsoft until 2005 when i dual booted win xp and mandrake 10.1,then fedora 6 then ubuntu 6.10 for a short while and now kubuntu 7.04...
to starlyte:i suggest you mandrake,i tried fedora 6,it lasted 1 day in my hd then formatted...too crash,too bad hardware recognition..
kubuntu is milions better...stable and very,very easy to use
now i dual boot win xp and kubuntu 7.04 very happily.keep win xp only for playing some point and click games...
hi to everyone !
Last edited by DOTT.EVARISTI; 05-01-2007 at 12:30 PM.
Distribution: Slackware 14.2 soon to be Slackware 15
Posts: 699
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47/male/Lebanon, Oregon, USA. American Citizen. And still young. Been programming for 20 years. Just got accepted into a grad program in Computer Science at OSU, classes start in September. And been using Slackware since 9.x.
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