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[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 15:16 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2008 10:57:31 pm Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > A weekend Sunday paper here in Stockholm had a double page
> > article on how Linux was not for nerds any more. They pointed people to
> > a few common distros (including openSUSE). I can't say how many people
> > will rush out. But it was the right type of info to be sending out.
> > Seriously though: was it ever really only for nerds? :)
>
> did you ever try downloading (via ftp), SuSE or Red Hat, then compiling and 
> installing back in - say - '94 or '95??

We did start with Linux rather early on. We just moved office, and I got
rid of quite a few distro boxes. But I could not get rid of Gentoo
downloads. Perhaps not '94 or '95 (we were using SVR4 and UnixWare at
that time), but still a bit of handwork.

I was making a joke...

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Roger Oberholtzer

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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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