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
