Caluser2000
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Gidday! I've been using Linux of some variety as my main daily desktop OS since around 2005. A big learning curve but well worth it,
Hi all from New Zealand
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Condobloke
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G'day Caluser, Welcome to Linux.org
NZ is not far from me....just across the ditch
NZ is not far from me....just across the ditch
G'day, I am the 3rd Aussie to welcome you, person from the land of the long white cloud 
2005, eh? That beats me (2010 first started) and 2014 exclusively as daily driver.
We have some folks here going back to the 90s.
Maybe we'll see you doing what Anzacs do best - helping and supporting others.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
2005, eh? That beats me (2010 first started) and 2014 exclusively as daily driver.
We have some folks here going back to the 90s.
Maybe we'll see you doing what Anzacs do best - helping and supporting others.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
We almost crossed beams, Mike - dangerous, so say Ghostbusters.
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Caluser2000
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Linux Mint Debian Edition. Testing MX Linux on a Core-Duo All-i-one iMac.
Oh and run Red Hat Linux 6.0 on my 386DX25 with 8megs of ram.
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Brickwizard
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Yet another Antipodean!!
Welcome to the forums, you will be at home with this lot
[from the top end of the earth]
[from the top end of the earth]
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Caluser2000
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Yeah it pays to have planet Earth the right way up!!
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Caluser2000
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Yip! Luv helping folk on computer related stuff. Got in to it in the late 1980-early 1990s. Never had even heard of Linux until the late 1990s. Is it the "Year of the Linux Desktop "yet?G'day, I am the 3rd Aussie to welcome you, person from the land of the long white cloud
2005, eh? That beats me (2010 first started) and 2014 exclusively as daily driver.
We have some folks here going back to the 90s.
Maybe we'll see you doing what Anzacs do best - helping and supporting others.
Cheers
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
Oh, no, don't start a Pavlova argument with a Kiwi
Is it the "Year of the Linux Desktop "yet?
We wish
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Caluser2000
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Doesn't bother me either way as long as I get my s*** done so to speak.
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CaffeineAddict
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Hello and welcome to the forums!
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Caluser2000
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A bit more about me..
I was a bit late on to the computer scene in my late 20s-early 30s in the late 80s-early 90s and posted to Defense Headquarters in Wellington New Zealand as a Sargent. Avionics guys had a great deal going at a local computer shop. Got a brand new clone 286/16, 1meg, 256kVGA OAK video card-14" vga monitor, 40meg hdd, 5,25" and 3.5" fdds, 101 key enhanced keyboard, game joy stick with two button mouse. Also came with 9-pin dot-matrix B&W printer. All fitted in a mini AT desktop case. No O/S so installed DR Dos 6.0 and GeoWorks Pro 1,2 on it.
The 286/16 had various upgrades over time, around 5-6 years total iirc with pre-used components, to a 486DX33 then a Pentium 133 in the end. Learnt a lot on it. Now 40 years on am still interested in that era kit and have gathered a nice selection of systems from that time period from various manufacturers,
I was especially impressed with the ACORN RiscPCs when they were released. Unfortunately they were a bit pricey for me to justify at the time but have a few examples to muck around with know I’m reaching retirement.
Good memories learning new things back then.
Well haven't really stopped....
I was a bit late on to the computer scene in my late 20s-early 30s in the late 80s-early 90s and posted to Defense Headquarters in Wellington New Zealand as a Sargent. Avionics guys had a great deal going at a local computer shop. Got a brand new clone 286/16, 1meg, 256kVGA OAK video card-14" vga monitor, 40meg hdd, 5,25" and 3.5" fdds, 101 key enhanced keyboard, game joy stick with two button mouse. Also came with 9-pin dot-matrix B&W printer. All fitted in a mini AT desktop case. No O/S so installed DR Dos 6.0 and GeoWorks Pro 1,2 on it.
The 286/16 had various upgrades over time, around 5-6 years total iirc with pre-used components, to a 486DX33 then a Pentium 133 in the end. Learnt a lot on it. Now 40 years on am still interested in that era kit and have gathered a nice selection of systems from that time period from various manufacturers,
I was especially impressed with the ACORN RiscPCs when they were released. Unfortunately they were a bit pricey for me to justify at the time but have a few examples to muck around with know I’m reaching retirement.
Good memories learning new things back then.
Well haven't really stopped....
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