Hello from MattRW

MattRW · 02-02-2018, 04:43 PM

Hi All,

Back to being a home linux user after a long hiatus. Years ago I remember running Fedora 1 on 1+ inch thick Toshibas. I then went to Macs for a bit but recently dumped my late 2016 macbook pro for a Dell XPS13 loaded with Ubuntu.

I have been long time emacs, bash, latex user. My linux claim to fame is that back in the '80s I was one of the first (if not the first) alpha testers for bash. At that time I had provided Brian Fox with some time on our Sun boxes to work on that project.

Matt

jefro · 02-02-2018, 06:51 PM

Howdy! Welcome to LQ.

I liked some of those Sun machines.

MattRW · 02-02-2018, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jefro

Howdy! Welcome to LQ.

I liked some of those Sun machines.

Yea. Me, too. I miss the 90's with the totally integrated network of machines. Everything was NFS mapped everywhere with the automounter. You could walk up to any Sun machine in the building, log in and you were at home: all apps were NFS mounted from the server, your home directory would be NFS mounted from your office desktop, etc.

ferrari · 02-02-2018, 07:31 PM

Nice to have a another seasoned user onboard. I'm sure you'll be able to help out around here. Are you planning to play with NFSv4 shares?

linustalman · 02-03-2018, 03:37 AM

Hi Matt. Welcome back to GNU/Linux.

MattRW · 02-03-2018, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by ferrari

Nice to have a another seasoned user onboard. I'm sure you'll be able to help out around here. Are you planning to play with NFSv4 shares?

Not playing with NFS right now. I do have a MyBookLive on the home network which runs linux. I believe I did set up NFS on that but not used it yet.