[Gllug] Grauniad Technology

Jose Luis Martinez jjllmmss at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 20 10:47:59 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 6:52 AM, John Hearns <hearnsj at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/3/19 Jose Luis Martinez <jjllmmss at googlemail.com>:
>>
>>
>> He is talking about his first foraging into Linux around a decade ago,
>> where one had to dabble often in the CL to get things done. It wasn't
>> productive work in the sense of getting things done, nevertheless was
>> interesting and fun.
>
> I rather politely disagree, on two counts:
>
> a) a decade ago I started using Linux at St Thomas Hospital in London.
> Subsequently went to work in the Framestore, where Linux was already
> well entrenched, not on the rendering and effects side yet but in
> systems monitoring and terminal serving machines. I put in a SuSE
> email/groupware/LDAP server for a whole company at that time.
>

The context of the article was Linux in the desktop.


> b) He still tries very hard to pick holes in SuSE 11 and Xubuntu

Yep, which they have plenty.
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