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I'm 60. |
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Gentoo since November 2005. |
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I was first exposed to the *nix concept through the DOS compiled Unix |
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utilities produced by the FSF in about 1992 or 3. Once I returned to |
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civilization from a remote Pacific island, where I was using the *nix |
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text tools for a lexicon project, I had to have Linux, of which I had |
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learned by following the FSF News Bull. |
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Started on Slackware. After about two years, I moved to Debian. A |
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few years later, I started using Knoppix to install and ran Debian. |
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I started using Gentoo as a self-torture exercize, to cure myself of |
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fear of configuration. I have looked at Ubuntu and MEPIX in the |
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meanwhile, even running them when I need a quick install. I have |
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never seriously looked back from Gentoo, however. |
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I'm not from a computer background, which seems somewhat unique among |
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respondents. Rather, I have been using GNU/Linux to enable my work, |
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education, science, publishing w/ TeX/LaTeX, making tide calendars. I |
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owe a huge debt to the developers. I would like to pay it back, |
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perhaps working on Documentation; perhaps I am too scatterbrained and |
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although I have taken a basic course in Computer Architecture, |
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programmed in Elisp, and taken a course in Mathematical FORTRAN, I |
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feel somewhat ovewhelmed by the nits. |
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Alan |
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@×××××.com |
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I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I |
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must share it with other people who like it. |
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--------Richard Stallman |
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute |
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rejection of authority. ----- Thomas H. Huxley |
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