Windows, Mac, or Linux?

My old win98 pc and xp have floppy-drives, mum still uses floppies in her work, as there is old win3.1 pc.

I've found lately an Intel 82340SX laptop with black&white screen.

 

In the old days you could access the Internet using a Unix command line. (still can, actually). No Windows needed!
If you wanted to share a pic, post it as a binary file and begin to download it to your screen. Go get a cup of coffee, have an apple and by the time you take your last sip and bite, your pic (a naked beauty, perhaps) would be waiting for you. Don't try this at work!

Before the Internet was widely available, you would dial in to a BBS and if the Sysop had Internet access, he could send and receive emails on your behalf.
There were some pretty cool ripscreen graphics on some of these bulletin boards.
Loved Mustang software-based BBS sites!

 

Yep! Folks were downloading on Usenet before they could get on the Internet. No search engines, just Telnet, Gopher, Archie, Veronica, email by Pine. At work we used a modem to dial in and send text messages to other companies from our 386 to theirs (no Internet, just raw data across the phone lines). I was stumbling around in the dark trying to find stuff back then.

We had BBS's all over town and one of them had an awesome real-world Christmas party. My goal in life was to be a Sysop. They were the coolest!

 

I still pay 3 bucks a month for Usenet access, have Forte Free Agent on my W2000 partition, but I'm noticing more and more that a month goes by and I haven't been there once.

 

Good ol UUCP, those were the days! When I was High School we set up a war dialer to the prefix of Bank of America local and let the sucker go! Two days later my Dad came home from work (a branch manager) and proceeded to kick my ass. My cousin and I had dialed into the mainframe at his branch. The sysop (who happens to be my God Father as well) seeing it came from the branch managers home phone number whilst he was on the phone with him at the office pretty much pointed the finger one way :0 Good God did I get in trouble for that one.

 

I just installed the new Linux LMDE Debian on my laptop and I absolutely love it.
No more OS upgrades! This OS is a thing of beauty, recognized my wireless driver out of the box too... This thing was just released march 22

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2346

 

Ehh....

What's wrong with real debian, with xfce?

 

Mint and Kali. There's a small windows 8 partition on a hardrive too, which I boot into when I feel like using an ugly smartphone OS that was packaged into a PC for no reason.

 

NOTHING!

its just comes to preference

and MINT F*&$ing rules...

 

Some links for people reading this that are out side the Linux comunity , but want to join .
http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mint http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=dreamstudio http://distrowatch.com/ a few of many , as to witch to use ? Down load the i.s.o. file burn it to a cd/dvd , run it as a live cd/dvd , see if you like it and it works with the hard ware . A live cd runs from the cd drive and is not installed on the hard drive , unless you install it . If not down load a different distro , its all free , or most are free .

 

I'm typing this on a Mint Pc, but I'm more of a BSD guy.

 

Ubuntu user for 5 years. Happy to be rid of microsoft and viruses.

 

I got an iPhone a few weeks ago and realized that Apple made a mistake by taking the customization out of things.

 

That because changing the case is probably the limit of most iPhone users technical abilities.

 

linux.

been linux-only for about 2 years, by choice.

xubuntu/debian.

 

Debian for almost everything, OpenBSD on servers that I know are going to get attacked ferociously. I've been a Debian guy since I switched over from FreeBSD in 1996 to get better hardware support.

For those who dig purty:



Compiz users just can't help but show off the desktop cube. At any rate, this one can't.

 

I love windows.....i have also come to love linux majorly because of few to no virus attacks......the only thing that sucks about linux is am not able to repair it when my Os has a problem.....i guess i have to get more familiar with it.....

Am sure you will love linux....these days its shifting more to better Graphical User Interface that allows you to navigate easily like windows or mac.

 

Used Linux Mint on an older laptop for a couple years (until the computer died). I liked it even though I had minor issues with it. If my family wasn't so hooked on Windows, I might give Ubuntu a try.