[dundee] First Love

[Nistur]

Ok, double entry for me here.
With computers in General, my "first love" was an IBM running MS-DOS 
with Norton Commander that I got "donated" from my Dad's work. I must've 
been about 6ish at the time. I know very little about it other than that 
(and that I had a cool submarine game I was terrible at but I enjoyed 
the animation when I got sunk as the periscope got cracked and the 
screen filled up with purple "water")
In terms of Linux, I was first given Mandrake 9.2 when I did work 
experience in High School (age 15) I didn't touch it much, I 
occasionally booted as it was faster than my XP install, but obviously 
didn't play the games... I don't think I got an awful lot from there, it 
would have only been later, when I switched to Fedora Core 2 I think it 
was that I really began fiddling and what better place to fiddle than 
the terminal? I know it's a general thing that every operating system 
has somewhere, but I just found the bash shell a lot of fun, I guess it 
kind of reminded me of my first PC, with the sharp contrast of the 
"Here's your computer, here's what you can do with it" of Windows XP. I 
doubt there is a single moment you will catch me at my computer without 
a console open (especially now I have one "embedded" into my Desktop 
with the help of Compiz)

Nistur
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gordon dunlop wrote:
> My first love is the Xandros file manager in super user mode. I do not
> use this OS on a day to day basis or even on a weekly basis, but only
> for transferring files or whole systems between partitions, you really
> cannot beat this. It is awesome, it will pick up all your operating
> systems (no shit with etc/fstab or anything else) with proper OS
> identification and easy transference between systems. The Samba system
> is also impressive (Paul will verify this), I love my Fedora system
> but until other Linux systems reach the quality of OS identification
> and ease of transfer, Xandros will stand out.
>
> gordon
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