Re: [Sheflug] Call me coward...

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi Barrie, sent you an e-mail the other day, but got lost in the vowels
of sheflug (my fault,btw) :)
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:15:10PM +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
>  From what you are saying, I think I'll stay with RedHat :-)
> 
>  I started using Amigas a good few years back, and spent a fair bit of time 
> messing around with the boot scripts, and AmigaDOS programs, and farting about 
> in a shell.
>  If I had gone on to Linux/UNIX then, I'd probably have learnt enough to make 
> me pretty good at all this.

	I also started with Amigas, but the cool thing about that is
that you could get most GNUish stuff for it as well, so you could have a
proper shell (bourne, I guess), emacs and all sorts of things there. i
think it helped to make the move towards UNIX (oh, well, there was
NetBSD, but who had the computer to run that? Mine was a 7.14 MHz, 1
meg, no hard drive kind of amiga!). It was good to code stuff in them
(MC68k assembler, a wonder of wonders!), AMOS and NorthC (a freebie c
compiler), and I hear you can get gcc for the Amy as well.

>  A couple of years with Windows screwed all that up!

	Hmm... I've been forced into *NIX after leaving the Amiga (which
I only put back in the store room a couple of years ago, after running
spice in it, among other things).

>  I like GNOME, however, unlike the hackers that use Debian, I don't need great 
> standards.
>  For me, the recent releases of Gnome have been pretty good - the occasional 
> crappy applet, but generally smooth sailing.

	I tend to do highly intensive processing, and if I want to use
gnome,  the resources this takes up are prohibitive. I like blackbox,
though, even though there are some things I miss in it. I have to make
sure that I keep memory use down to a minimum, and same goes for
processor use. In this state of affairs, I don't want to have 5 apache's
running, 3 mysql and so on. And of coourse, I can't wait to go clicking
in each package one by one.

	I guess I'll have to resurrect that mail again :)
	Regards,
	José
-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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