[Sussex] RE: Hello all

[Geoff Teale]

Hello!

Andrew Wrote:
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>We first I should say hello to you all, so see this as me saying hello.
>
>I am rather new to world of Linux, just played around with it once or
twice. 

Glad to have you onboard.  :)  One small request (as a list admin) please
could you send messages to the list as plain-text rather than rich text or
HTML, the spam-filter gets all agitated otherwise!

>The nearest I get to Linux is our accounts servers which NEVER go down.
Only once in all my time 
>here I had to do an reset and that was because the backup drive SCSI cables
where lose.

I see you've already realised the first major advantage of LINUX and (most)
of the software that runs upon it - it is (or at least can be) very stable
indeed.

>Computing history is something like this:-
>Vic 20 
>CBM 64
>Amiga 500
>Amiga CDTV
>Amiga 1200 
>Amiga CD32 (I will probley talk more about Amiga in future)

Wow... and Commodore still went bust.  I used Amiga's in the late 1980's
early 1990's - my last machine was an A1500 with a 68030 accelerator card,
6MB or RAM and a 80MB hard-disk!  Mainly used to program C and make 3d
scenes with Turbo Silver.  I said goodbye of that machine in  1995 - I
needed a PC for my Uni coursework.


>Windows NT/95/98/ME/2000/XP
>
>Tao
>
>Others....
>
>
>For me I just love using computers. I hate Microsoft and there business
activates. But I can not 
>complain to much about Microsoft as there software is so bad that it puts
people like me in 
>employment.  


Erm.. I've heard that arguement many times.  I can see where you're coming
from, but I have to say I disagree.