OK I am 82. My first Fedora Core install was FC-3 and before that Red Hat 4 if my memory does not trick me. Today running in different boxes, F-18, F-19, F-20beta. Multibooting Debian Wheezy, F-19 and Windows 8.1. My most sincere thanks to all the developers and contributors. Well done. M. A. MacLain ----- Original Message ----- > Sorry for top posting. This phone doesn't allow bottom posting. > > I'm 57 years old and I have been using linux, more on than off, since > 1997, and exclusively since 2003 or so. > I find it is more stable than either windows or macos and more usable > than dos, even at the command prompt. > > Hth > > Dave > > Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone powered by Mobilicity > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sender: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:25:02 > To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Fedora's audience > > > Recent exchanges here and in related places have reminded me > strongly of long discussions held on RedHat lists fifteen or twenty > years > ago. > > Was (now is) RH/F, and Linux generally, *for* all & sundry? Or > was/is it essentially a plaything of the Alpha Plus Technoids? Which > *should* it be? > > That distinction applied to shoes and ships and sealing wax, to > cabbages and kings; i.e., all the way from designing new apps for > GUI, > for CLI only, or for some compromise -- to what sorts of posters and > questions ought to be welcome or unwelcome on the public lists. > > I remember pointing out repeatedly that when the Baby Boomers > began to retire, and cease to be bound to their employers' systems, > some > fraction of them would take up Linux -- and it wouldn't need a very > big > fraction of their numbers to make a substantial difference to Linux. > > To the best of my recollection, that issue never resolved into > any consensus. RedHat changed its whole strategy, and suddenly many > of us > had far more urgent concerns than just the philosophic ones. > > By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring > in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more > fellow > retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here > have > such numbers, or know of a source from whence to get them? > > -- > Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User > Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
