[mythtv-users] MythTV : Thank You
Rich West
Rich.West at wesmo.com
Sun Feb 4 04:48:01 UTC 2007
Rich West wrote:
> Brian Schott wrote:
>
>> On Feb 3, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I've been running Linux machines since 1993 and I still consider
>>> myself a "novice", because I've worked with kids less than half my
>>> age who can blow me out of the water when it comes to Unix :-)
>>>
>>>
>> You've really been running Linux since 93? That's like since day
>> one! Or did you mean Unix? Ignoring the really funky machines, I've
>> taken a meandering path from VMS, to Ultrix, to SunOS, to IRIX, to
>> Slowaris (Solaris), to Linux (and most recently riding roman in the
>> BSD camp with Darwin/OSX :-). I just wish everybody would stop
>> fiddling with where they place their stinking config files!
>>
>> What distribution are most MythTV users running? I started with
>> Fedora, but had a heck of a time every time an update happened. I
>> asked one of our RedHat jockeys at work "how do you go from FC5 to
>> FC6?". The answer was "nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be
>> sure". So, I switched back to Debian unstable and have been pretty
>> happy since.
>>
>
> I'm guessing he meant unix in general. :) Linux was pretty much a
> complete unknown back in '93. Back then, all we had were Sun 360's and
> Sparc 1's running SunOS 4.0.x.
Seeing his response (that I missed), I realize he did, indeed, mean
Linux. :)
-Rich
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