Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1982 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 13:56 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On Tuesday, 2008-11-18 at 07:57 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>
> > Seriously though: was it ever really only for nerds? :)
>
> When I first installed SuSE, it took me perhaps a week to get graphics 
> working, a month to get good graphics. It had to be configured by hand, 
> sax was not yet invented or was too primitive (SuSE 5.2).
>
> Not many users would have endured that entry learning curve!

I was joking. You at least had graphics... <cue violins> In my day, we
had to do the graphics before dawn on an empty stomach. In the winter we
often had no shoes and had to fight the wolves to get the network
working. Linux users today don't know how easy they have it. They have
it too easy. No character building ;) ;)

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

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"On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!),
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend
the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
  - Charles Babbage 1791-1871)
    English computer pioneer, philosopher

And remember:

It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. 
It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. 
Not impossible, but very unlikely.

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