I live very near Red Bank (I can walk there, but usually drive). I have
been running UNIX since its kernel was six assembler files that one
piped through cat into the assembler and the a.out you got was the
kernel; when to add a device you needed to use db (their first debugger)
to manipulate the /dev directory. Oh! The bad old days! I did not like
it much because it was not much good for real-time process control; it
still isn't, IMAO. But now I am not doing real-time process control, so
that does not matter as much to me. And by comparison with Microsoft
products, it is head and shoulders above that competition, and about 15
years ahead of Microsoft in areas of importance to me.
Right now I have two machines. The newer one runs Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 and the older one dual boots CentOS 4 and Windows XP Home. I
only keep Windows because of income tax software and a hydronic heating
design program that are Windows-only.
I came to a few of the earlier meetings of LUGAJS but did not feel I had
all that much to contribute. But I am willing to make another try if
schedules can be worked out. One meeting at a time to begin with, I guess.
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