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agent_jdh
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 Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:19 am Post subject: Happy 7th Gentooday to me |
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As a counter to the "after 4 years of Gentoo - enough" thread.
From my (admittedly erratic) memory, I installed Gentoo ~x86 "for a laugh" exactly 7 years ago today on my main home system. Debian (first installed in 1997) and then FreeBSD have lived alongside it at times, but have come and gone. Been through 2 hardware changes without actually having to do a re-install from scratch. Installed it on my home server box as well when I got around to building one.
Signed up to the forums a few months later after the usual lurking. Been a pleasure helping folk and being helped by other Gentooistas in this place.
Don't usually post in Gentoo Chat or OTW, but thought this wee milestone merited a "cheers guys", so eh, cheers. Off to crack open a celebratory beer. Any excuse, like.
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:47 am Post subject: |
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Nice 
You used Gentoo Rc 1.4 |
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EzInKy
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Congrats, agent...you beat me by a couple of months. I too started with Linux in '97.
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 1:03 am Post subject: |
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| I started to use Linux in 1999. So you beat me too |
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agent_jdh
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| d2_racing wrote: | Nice
You used Gentoo Rc 1.4 |
I did indeed. Still got the installation docs kicking about somewhere.
Oh, and one of my ex-girlfriends for about 5 years was from St Faustin/Lac Carré, which is not too far from where you are (yes, I've climbed Mont Tremblant, and Montréal is my favourite city in North America).
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| EzInKy wrote: | | Congrats, agent...you beat me by a couple of months. I too started with Linux in '97. |
Aye, Debian for me. This ex-Amigan caught the Unix bug with Solaris at uni. Was helped by having an all-scsi i/o box at the time.
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:05 pm Post subject: |
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| agent_jdh wrote: | | Oh, and one of my ex-girlfriends for about 5 years was from St Faustin/Lac Carré, which is not too far from where you are (yes, I've climbed Mont Tremblant, and Montréal is my favourite city in North America). |
I'm about 3h from there is you drive at 120 km/h |
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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I started using gentoo the August of the year it says I joined - either 06 or 07 (I think 06, right?)
I was using linux in 1996... using redhat 3.0.3 on a then-new pentium. This doesn't sound too remarkable until you realize I was 3 in 1996...
my dad raised me with that interest in computers, and I particularly caught on to linux.
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:28 am Post subject: |
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | | This doesn't sound too remarkable until you realize I was 3 in 1996... |
Heh, I'll need to introduce my 2-year-old nephew to Linux, get him started early 
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[quote="d2_racing"] | agent_jdh wrote: | | I'm about 3h from there is you drive at 120 km/h |
Tsk, speed limit in Canada is 100kph iirc  Quebec City is the one place I regret not visiting, I've got a Château Frontenac bookmark somewhere...
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| Yeah, 10 minutes from my home |
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