[OT] What holiday is everyone celebrating?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

At age 54 I had a change of heart about going back to school, so that now,
7 years later I have a PhD and two years experience teaching (gulp!) computer
science at Cal Poly (U. California system).  You'd never know it from the
inane and sometime downright stupid things I've asked and said from time
to time here and on other lists.  I just never seem to get to the computer
except when I'm already exhausted from other things, which tends to make
me grumpy and thick.

I have a dual-Xeon running gentoo that is a direct descendant of a machine
that originally ran Esix, then a large number of Caldera Distros from CND 1.0
to 3.1.1 workstation, as well as a few RH ones up to 7.3 and finally
is on gentoo.
It was a graduation present from me to me.

I also have a P-III that still runs RH 7.3,  mostly for Win4Lin, which
I really should
move to the Xeon (RSN).

My wife has a P-III that ran W98, then (nearly over my dead body) WinMe, then
(briefly) Caldera something server, and is now WinXP.  She never did like Linux;
the things she wanted to do were just too hard.

At school, it's an older PIII running RH9 / Win2k (school's workhorses
of the time) that
is probably going to become FC 2 / WinXP over thanksgiving.

++ kevin


On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 08:24:34 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 01:56, James McDonald wrote:
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > The list seems very quite. Is there some observance going on that has
> > taken everyone away from their computers?
> 
> Night time does it for me. Especially after midnight. I agree that it is
> quiet. Seems for me (at least) that my frequent questions are elsewhere.
> Or so they seem to me.
> 
> This has always been somewhat of a distro help place. Just curious:
> which distro is everyone becoming expert at these days? I only ask to
> see if the reason some posts go unanswered (not even a snide comment) is
> that they are outside what others on this list are doing.
> 
> I can compile the results.
> 
> Here it is SUSE 9.x and Gentoo 1.4/2004. So I do try to answer questions
> in these areas - if I have a clue (snide comment opportunity here).
> 
> Perhaps it could be interesting to know how we are all using the various
> distros. What other areas of expertise are there?
> 
> (Can you tell it is Monday morning here and I don't want to get to my
> real work yet...)
> 
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