[Linux4christians] Welcome

[Cia Watson]

On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:36:13 -0500
"Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:

> On 11/09/2011 10:47 PM, Ken Sprouse wrote:

> > I also ran bulletin boards.  Opus, Fido, a home brew version written
> > in Turbo Pascal and a multi line Wildcat system.  I can't figure out
> > now where and how I found the time!  :-)
> 
> Hehehehehe......been there and got the t-shirt! ;) Fido was fun....the
> OS/2 areas were very active. If you were there you might remember one
> particular MickySoft shill who created quite a bit of "noise". I took
> great pleasure from pointing out his out and out lies and distortions. I
> still have a soft spot for OS/2, but Linux has long since surpassed it's
> abilities.

You both are bringing back some memories for me... I ran a 12 line chat bbs
for a couple of years. I still have the copy of Boardwatch Magazine
which has a list of women sysops (since I'm on the list). And I spent a bit of
time on a fido bbs, though I don't recall which one. And I also still have a
soft spot for OS/2, in fact I have the box with Warp on 3.5" floppies stuck
in a box in my office. I keep meaning to look up whether a museum or anyone
else might want it. I hate to send it to the dumpster, but of course that's
likely where it'll end up.

And by way of introducing myself to the list, I've been using Linux since the
spring of 2009. I had an old IBM thinkpad running Win2k whose AVG software
wasn't going to be supported any more, and I could have used Clam but I
decided it was time to look at linux, since I'd heard about it many years
ago. I started out with Fedora, since the Ubuntu dvd had a kernel panic.
Several months after that in 2009 I got a new (to me) desktop pc with no OS
installed and installed Fedora 13. 

I decided I wanted something a bit more stable than Fedora, what with the
6 month release cycle, and while waiting for CentOS 6 to be released I tried
Linux Mint Debian. I really liked it, but realized I wasn't using most of the
'minty' features so I installed Debian testing (now wheezy) a few months ago,
along with Debian stable (squeeze) on another partition. The ibm thinkpad
is still put to use on occasion, running Debian squeeze. And most recently
I've been studying PHP and MySQL, though I've installed Mariadb on my home pc
in place of MySQL. I could probably go on for pages, but I'll leave it there
for now. :-)

In Christ,

Cia W.