Google| Subject | Re: Advocacy |
| From | Marek Novotny |
| Date | 2017-09-07 18:00 (2017-09-07 11:00) |
| Message-ID | <UaidnXqOptua8CzEnZ2dnUU7-YnNnZ2d@giganews.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Follows | William Poaster |
On 2017-09-07, William Poaster <wp@dev.null>wrote:
William Poaster// snip
On 7/9/2017 16:18 in comp.os.linux.advocacy, Marek Novotny posted:
Sorry, again, I only started using Linux four years ago. I have no concept of what it was like for you guys in the 90s. In the 90s I was using Unix System V r 4.2 and Solaris 2.5. I had friends using HP-UX and BSDI but in those cases I was not involved with the installation. I did my own installation of UNIX and Solaris both of which were not difficult. My best friend had Red Hat running on his PC, but at the time I was running Solaris on a my Sparc and learning Veritas Volume Manager and studying for my Solaris admin and Enterprise sales tests. Linux wasn't something I payed attention to back in those days. Mostly I liked Lotus Notes / Domino, large storage arrays from Compaq and XIOtech and ran Solaris. That was my world.Marek NovotnyWilliam Poaster
You can back up your settings. And I'll even show you how.
Fair enough, but don't you think that someone who installed Linux in the 90s would *know* how to do that? Seems he didn't learn much, IMO.
Back then, I bought "Linux - The Complete Reference" by Richard Perersen 3rd Edition 1999. Taught me a lot, & I learned how to build kernels etc. Seems the last edition was the 6th, published in 2007. Also "Linux System Administration" (O'Reilly), & "The Linux Hardware Hand book". *That's* how determined I was to escape M$crap & make Linux work. :-)I'll have to see if I can buy such a book still. It will be interesting for me to read it.
I found the 4th edition of that book used and just ordered it.
-- Marek Novotny https://github.com/marek-novotny
2017-09-06
