Greetings from not-so-afar

[John C. Voigt]

On 11/26/2013 06:23 PM, James McDonald eloquently noted:

Hi all & Happy (belated) Thanksgiving...been out of town for a few days.

> When I saw the word "Calderians" it prompted a memory of me buying a box
> set of Caldera Open Linux 2.4 CD's in London in '98-'99.

Caught the "Calderians' thing too. I started with Slackware, and then
moved to the "Caldera Network Desktop" circa 1995 and they did a bang-up
job with it at the time. It started out based on RedHat, and IIRC, they
eventually based it on the LST distro from Germany in the 2.x days. It
was rock solid. I still have a number of the old versions sitting on a
shelf.

I'd like to get one of the original CND versions to play with on an old
machine. It reminded me a little bit of the Indigo Magic Desktop on
Silicon Graphics machines of the day, though not as sophisticated.

> Since Unity prompted a move away from Ubuntu I have used Fedora (with the
> default gnome shell) at home and Redhat 5.x, CentOS 6.x & Debian at work
> but in a Windows Centric environment.

After the SCO fiasco, I went with SuSE, as a number of the LST/Caldera
folks went to work for SuSE. It's been solid so far, though the systemd
thing in the latest releases is a bit of a PITA.

> On 27 November 2013 07:11, Jay Nugent <jjn at nuge.com> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings fellow Calderians,
>>
>> On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>>
>>> Wow,
>>>
>>> I totally forgot that I had messages automatically filed into the list
>>> folder for this group. How the heck is everyone? Brought back a lot of
>>> good memories to find this folder and 422 unread messages.
>>>
>>> Me, I'm still running mostly Kubuntu boxen, and having to deal with
>>> CentOS and Windows 7/Windows8/Server* at work.
>>>
>>> Hope you are all healthy, well-employed, and well.
>>>
>>> Matt

Not doing much IT work at $DAYJOB anymore (it was centralized), and am
now back in the coal fields, but I still run everything for my wife's
small business, so at least I can still get the free magazines, er,
publications ;-) Still on OpenSuSE, but may also look into Debian and
FreeBSD, which seem to be quite stable. CentOS might be interesting too.

>>     Consulting work has diminished greatly, and so has web hosting.  Hard
>> to compete with $9/mo services.  So for the past 6 years I have been
>> teaching UNIX/Linux System Administration for the local Community College.
>> Two class, one is an Intro and the other is Intermediate.  Occasionally I
>> pick up a UNIX/Linux Intro class when the other instructors schedule gets
>> overloaded and he needs to punt a calls over to me.  We don't teach much
>> GUI and stick to the command line.  Funny how that class always has a
>> reverse bell curve - 8 or 9 A's, a B, a C, and 4 or 5 F's.  Seems with
>> these MickySoft kids, they either get it or they don't !!!

Good that you're taking this on. Learn first, point-n-click later.

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>>  Still VERY active in Amateur Radio and EMCOMM.

Haven't had time to do much Ham stuff lately, but hope to get back into
it soonly. I just do the rag chew and local emergency support stuff at
present, but might look into the digital things when I can get some time.

L8R,

JV
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