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Re: [SLE] Hi all - new user
- From: Glenn Holmer <gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2002 09:53:03 -0600
- Message-id: <3C31DB5F.3020805@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Isen Kusima wrote:
> My first OS is DOS 2.0. I don't really care about OS at that time, and
> just use it.
What, you never had a Commodore? :)
> After Windows 3.x come out, I bought a 486DX2-66 pre-loaded with it.
> That's the time I'm more aware of OS. I read PC Magazine & Byte and
> decide to buy OS/2 Warp 4 in early 1995. I use it until october, then
> bought new computer pre-loaded with Windows 95. I dual boot the windows
> & OS/2.
>
> Although I like OS/2 more than Windows95, I can't find enough resource
> to make me using it more and more.
Sad but true! OS/2 was killed by the fact that it could easily run
Windows 3.x apps: so why develop for OS/2? That and the whole issue
of Microsoft's behavior re. IBM. I ran OS/2 from 2.0 through Warp 4,
and still have it on two machines. I boot it when I need to remind
myself what a *real* desktop environment should be like (as opposed to
that <flame-bait>tinker-toy KDE</flame-bait>). But then I reboot Linux
because I start to feel sad...
> In 1998 I saw an article about dual celeron project that lead me to
> BeOS. I bought BeOS & love it.... and ditch Windows. Unfortunately, Be
> Incorporated went bankrupt & can't support BeOS anymore. So, I must
> find replacement OS, because If I want to upgrade (say to Pentium4) in
> the future or using new hardware, I can't use BeOS anymore. Since it's
> not supported & no driver for it.
That sounds familiar, too. BeOS never even had the share that OS/2 had,
but it was so new and exciting (and of course blindingly fast)! Also
still on one of my machines.
> Anyway,
> I am a proud user of SuSE 7.3 Proffesional.
You made the right choice. SuSE Linux rules, and will only get better.
I started with Slackware in '95, and made Linux my primary operating
system when I switched to SuSE in '98. I have never been happier with
an operating system (not to mention the $thousands it has saved the
company I work for).
--
=======================================================
Glenn Holmer (gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
-------------------------------------------------------
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
(In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.)
-------------------------------------------------------
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926
=======================================================
> My first OS is DOS 2.0. I don't really care about OS at that time, and
> just use it.
What, you never had a Commodore? :)
> After Windows 3.x come out, I bought a 486DX2-66 pre-loaded with it.
> That's the time I'm more aware of OS. I read PC Magazine & Byte and
> decide to buy OS/2 Warp 4 in early 1995. I use it until october, then
> bought new computer pre-loaded with Windows 95. I dual boot the windows
> & OS/2.
>
> Although I like OS/2 more than Windows95, I can't find enough resource
> to make me using it more and more.
Sad but true! OS/2 was killed by the fact that it could easily run
Windows 3.x apps: so why develop for OS/2? That and the whole issue
of Microsoft's behavior re. IBM. I ran OS/2 from 2.0 through Warp 4,
and still have it on two machines. I boot it when I need to remind
myself what a *real* desktop environment should be like (as opposed to
that <flame-bait>tinker-toy KDE</flame-bait>). But then I reboot Linux
because I start to feel sad...
> In 1998 I saw an article about dual celeron project that lead me to
> BeOS. I bought BeOS & love it.... and ditch Windows. Unfortunately, Be
> Incorporated went bankrupt & can't support BeOS anymore. So, I must
> find replacement OS, because If I want to upgrade (say to Pentium4) in
> the future or using new hardware, I can't use BeOS anymore. Since it's
> not supported & no driver for it.
That sounds familiar, too. BeOS never even had the share that OS/2 had,
but it was so new and exciting (and of course blindingly fast)! Also
still on one of my machines.
> Anyway,
> I am a proud user of SuSE 7.3 Proffesional.
You made the right choice. SuSE Linux rules, and will only get better.
I started with Slackware in '95, and made Linux my primary operating
system when I switched to SuSE in '98. I have never been happier with
an operating system (not to mention the $thousands it has saved the
company I work for).
--
=======================================================
Glenn Holmer (gholmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
-------------------------------------------------------
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
(In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.)
-------------------------------------------------------
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926
=======================================================
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