Ubuntu: Taking Over the Linux World

[din]

Very true.

While at IBM training we were given terminals to access AIX and everything was in text mode. Chat, wall, the vi (no, we knew about pico after a long time), it was fun.

Then it was RH text mode boot. That green n black text with [OK] right to every line, then rpm-ivh, install, make, that was so nice.

I never recompiled a kernal, never done any system level programming, but text mode was pretty nice. As infra_red_dude said, "charm of linux is still the terminal"

Oh well, diverted form thread. Anyway gonna install Linux tomo (after a long time !) Will try Ubuntu first

[infra_red_dude]

the year was 1997 (when me was abt 12 years old or so).... the distro was red hat linux 5 (during that time, rhl was the only distro easily available)... i was so so so happy to get X windows and fvwm95 working on my system wid a trident vga adapter doubly happy to get the sound working...

then after that i upgraded my machine.... got a p2 machine... tnt2 and other stuff... getting linux completely work on it was hard.. but not harder than what i'd already accomplished!! the distro was slackware....

going thru man pages, guides etc.. made me use the CLI for installing and setting up hardware and various other things.... i used to think the batch programming that i did in dos was cool....but i was amazed at CLI's sheer power (bash)...that was the time when i fell in love wid the CLI... and i maintain this love even to this day....

whether ubuntu takes over the linux world or linux takes over the world.. i'll never let go of my beloved CLI

@din
very true... even this day.. i prefer working wid vi over gedit or kate!

[rocket357]

Originally Posted by Zeeshan Quireshi

According to scientists , Sanskrit is a much more logical(and thus better language) than english , so i suggest why don't you *learn* the sanskrit language and make all your posts in sanskrit rather than using the crap english

Interesting...and yet, when one individual posts in "regional" dialect, people look down on it. Why don't you all post in Sanskrit, then? Just curious...

And if it means that much to you (I'd determined that learning the language wasn't a requirement because of the fact that these posts are predominantly English) I'll learn Sanskrit. I've been meaning to learn another language, honestly...just haven't devoted much time to it =) Just don't flame me if I say something retarded like "I am a Jelly doughnut" haha

Originally Posted by Zeeshan Quireshi

but rockets357 seems adamant on proving to me that Gentoo portage is better(i'm not saying it's better , or it's not , what i'm saying is that i can do my work with dpkg and apt so i'll try others when i need to do so)

Sorry if I came across wrong...

Portage has it's pros and cons...just as any other package manager. If you're happy with dpkg and apt, then by all means, stick to what you like! *I* like portage because of the sheer control it gives you. Apologies if I came across rude...I didn't mean to imply that dpkg is "lesser" or whatever...if it floats your boat, use it.

Edit - My post was NOT directed to people who are actively experimenting and learning! You've stated, Zeeshan, that you've experimented with numerous distros...this is good! I'm not saying that "to be a competent Linux user one MUST learn portage"...that's complete non-sense and would make me out to be a complete elitist (which I don't consider myself to be). Besides, portage has gotten "soft"...haha.

Seriously, I didn't mean to offend you, Zeeshan!