[OT] What holiday is everyone celebrating?

[Chong Yu Meng]

Vu Pham wrote:

>It seems everybody here is luckier than me : all started from Unix - the
>standard OS. For me, I started from Dos 3.0 with Edlin :-) as my first
>editor for asm86. Then I came to Win 3.0, 3.1 and Workgroup 3.11. Next I
>worked with Netware 2.0a up to 4.2 ( I even was an MCNE :-) and Windows Nt4.
>Then I started with Slackware as the first *nix OS. I remember how I hated
>Linux at that time : just a text screen, not gui - or the gui was not as
>convineint as Windows Gui.
>
>But my friend showed me that for Windows NT - although the Admin GUI is very
>convennient , but when there is problem, it's pretty difficult for the
>adminitrator to do more than what the GUI apps provide. That encouraged me
>to learn more about *nix. Then I moved to Sco, Redhat, and Solaris partly
>because of customers'requirement, but mostly because of my wanting to learn
>more about *nix.
>
>Now, I really *love* *nix.
>
>  
>
Don't feel bad, Vu ! I started from DOS as well. Although UNIX was 
taught by my lecturers as well. First job, I was using HP-UX and Solaris 
for mission-critical production-line work, with Windows 3.11 as my 
report-writing workstation. Tried Windows NT 4 in an ISP environment a 
couple years later, and was appalled at the reliability and security of 
that platform. Too many late nights in the data center convinced me to 
look at other alternatives. Got flamed on a Slackware mailing list, but 
plugged away, until Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 (I think it was the first 
Linux with a graphical installer and boot screen), when I could actually 
sell the idea of Linux to my bosses.

Anyway, now I'm maintaining Solaris servers at work, but running Fedora 
Core 2 on my laptop.

Oh yeah, I'm from Asia. Singapore to be exact. You know, the place that 
caned/flogged Michael Fay. How is that guy anyway?

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