<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2007 9:51 PM, john-thomas richards <<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p><DEFANGED_div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:42:32PM -0500, Godwin wrote:<br>> Welcome in deed Steve! Good to have someone with "long time" knowledge... ;-)<br><br></p><DEFANGED_div>Speaking of that, and completely off the topic of this thread, I have used
<br>Linux now for ten years. Who on this list has been using it longer than that?<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>john-thomas<br>------<br> </font></blockquote><p><DEFANGED_div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel</a><br><br>A little Linux history. I've been playing <br>with it, or been around those who have,<br>since about 1994. First with Slackware,<br>which came on about 10 compressed
<br>floppies, and already worked fine.<br><br>I've been in and out of it over the years,<br>but never as an IT person. I mostly <br>translated the Unix background I had<br>to Linux. It was only about 15 years <br>ago, if that, that most of us could get
<br>our hands on things like AT&T SVR3<br>and SVR4. Before that it was impractical<br>for anyone to have a private copy of Unix.<br>All to say that it was in and around 1992<br>or thereafter that anyone could have any
<br>kind of person version of Unix or a Unix<br>like OS. Much of a version anyway. <br><br> -Bob<br><br></p><DEFANGED_div></p><DEFANGED_div><br>