Old farts and new Linux

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon May 3 21:36:28 UTC 2004


On Monday 03 May 2004 17:29, alex wrote:
>dsyates wrote:
>> Around 03:44pm on Monday, May 03, 2004 (UK time), duncan brown 
scrawled:
>>>>> and i don't mean to insult you in anyway, but... i wonder who's
>>>>> the oldest
>>>>> computer literate linux user out there?  i sort of have the
>>>>> mentality of
>>>>> the hippies back in the 60s/70s, don't trust anyone over 30 =]
>>>>> ... it's hard for me to believe that someone over 30 uses linux
>>>>> personally, once you're over 30 you have to start thinking more
>>>>> like a manager =]... then
>>>>> again, i'm almost over that line, but i don't feel like i'm
>>>>> that close =]
>>
>> I am 37 and I started using linux when I was 29. All 4 of my six
>> computers are running linux.
>> To be almost 30, you have some serious misconceptions.
>
>There comes a time when there's some validity to the label OF.
>
>I'm a relative newcomer to computers and particularly Linux,
>with no formal training.
>
>I started at age 76 back in 1994 on a Commodure C64, graduated
>to a Quantex a few years later running Win95/98/98SE.  Then when
>Sam's 'Teach yourself Linux in 24 hours' came out with a RedHat
>5.0 CD, took a chance and now at age 86 have 6 different Linuxes
>installed with a couple of double installations. The old Qantex
>is slow by today's standards but otherwise still doing a good job.
>
>I'm by no means a Linux expert so depend a lot on the various
>lists and web pages for information.  My biggest accomplishment
>is a set of aliases that that lets me access any other system
>(including MS Windows) to copy/move/edit from whichever Linux I
>happen to be running.
>
>
>  alex

Congratulations Alex, I'm topped, quite resoundingly at 17 years.

Many more to you too.

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