[ale] GA Tech Install Fest

[Jeff Lightner]

Apparently you missed the joke.
http://www.nndb.com/people/908/000024836/


I'm old enough to remember things like gopher, archie, veronica et al.
I still say this internet thing will never catch on...

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Christopher Fowler
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:39 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] GA Tech Install Fest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_protocol

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 13:22 -0400, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Gopher?
> 
> The love boooot, exciting and newwwwwww
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Christopher Fowler
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:02 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] GA Tech Install Fest
> 
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 10:09 -0600, JK wrote:
> > Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
> > Just out of curiosity, Chris, do you believe that Fedora
> > is a better distro choice for complete newbies than
> > Ubuntu?  Personally, having tried them both, I would be
> > far more likely to recommend Ubuntu to newbies (though
> > personally I use Fedora and Slackware mostly).
> > 
> 
> <commence flamewar>
> Ubuntu is great for noobs.  Fedora is good for noobs who will be our
> future in the Computer Science field.  
> 
> When I started out there was not much out there for noobs.  Things
were
> difficult and I feel it made me stronger.  There was no module support
> and compiling a kernel was almost always a requirement.  Getting X to
> work sometimes meant to use vim as your X configuration tool.  Gopher
> was your friend.  
> 
> > -- JK
> > 
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