J Martin Rushton
2018-Nov-03 14:38 UTC
[CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024
On 03/11/18 02:31, Robert Heller wrote: <snip>> Yeah, there are very few of us that completely skipped > MS-DOS/MS-Windows/MacOS-Clasic and *never* used a graphical file manager or > any of the eye-candy that people now believe is "standard" or "normal". I > went from VMS on a VT<whatever> to a VAXStation 2000 to a VAXStation 3000, to > DECStation 5000, to Linux, with some time spent on CP/M-68K and OS-9/68000, as > well as SunOS, IRIX, etc. *I* have never owned a machine running any verison > of MS-Windows (I did have a box that dual booted MS-DOS and Linux). >VTs? How about a VAX 11/782 with two LA120s, one per CPU. :-) There were advantages in hardcopy consoles when dealing with system crashes or boot problems. Oh, I will confess to once owning W95 and W98 machines, but I do remember finally issuing the command "# rm -r /C". -- J Martin Rushton MBCS -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20181103/3a6439be/attachment-0001.sig>
Robert Heller
2018-Nov-03 22:49 UTC
[CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024
At Sat, 3 Nov 2018 14:38:03 +0000 J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com>, CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:> > > From: J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com> > To: centos at centos.org > Message-ID: <8a7a2aea-33da-9f3c-00a1-c6471fa02683 at btinternet.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024 > References: <20181102200256.GA18584 at mutt.melvilletheatre.net> <20181102203540.6DE5326C22DA at sharky3.deepsoft.com> <f664e653-a03c-3604-cec5-bcaadf9bd613 at kicp.uchicago.edu> <20181103023156.B332D26C22D6 at sharky3.deepsoft.com> > In-Reply-To: <20181103023156.B332D26C22D6 at sharky3.deepsoft.com> > > On 03/11/18 02:31, Robert Heller wrote: > > <snip> > > > Yeah, there are very few of us that completely skipped > > MS-DOS/MS-Windows/MacOS-Clasic and *never* used a graphical file manager or > > any of the eye-candy that people now believe is "standard" or "normal". I > > went from VMS on a VT<whatever> to a VAXStation 2000 to a VAXStation 3000, to > > DECStation 5000, to Linux, with some time spent on CP/M-68K and OS-9/68000, as > > well as SunOS, IRIX, etc. *I* have never owned a machine running any verison > > of MS-Windows (I did have a box that dual booted MS-DOS and Linux). > > > > VTs? How about a VAX 11/782 with two LA120s, one per CPU. :-) > > There were advantages in hardcopy consoles when dealing with system > crashes or boot problems.I did use a LA120 on a PDP-15...> > Oh, I will confess to once owning W95 and W98 machines, but I do > remember finally issuing the command "# rm -r /C". >-- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services
J Martin Rushton
2018-Nov-03 23:18 UTC
[CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024
On 03/11/18 22:49, Robert Heller wrote:> At Sat, 3 Nov 2018 14:38:03 +0000 J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com>, CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > >> >> >> From: J Martin Rushton <martinrushton56 at btinternet.com> >> To: centos at centos.org >> Message-ID: <8a7a2aea-33da-9f3c-00a1-c6471fa02683 at btinternet.com> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024 >> References: <20181102200256.GA18584 at mutt.melvilletheatre.net> <20181102203540.6DE5326C22DA at sharky3.deepsoft.com> <f664e653-a03c-3604-cec5-bcaadf9bd613 at kicp.uchicago.edu> <20181103023156.B332D26C22D6 at sharky3.deepsoft.com> >> In-Reply-To: <20181103023156.B332D26C22D6 at sharky3.deepsoft.com> >> >> On 03/11/18 02:31, Robert Heller wrote: >> >> <snip> >> >>> Yeah, there are very few of us that completely skipped >>> MS-DOS/MS-Windows/MacOS-Clasic and *never* used a graphical file manager or >>> any of the eye-candy that people now believe is "standard" or "normal". I >>> went from VMS on a VT<whatever> to a VAXStation 2000 to a VAXStation 3000, to >>> DECStation 5000, to Linux, with some time spent on CP/M-68K and OS-9/68000, as >>> well as SunOS, IRIX, etc. *I* have never owned a machine running any verison >>> of MS-Windows (I did have a box that dual booted MS-DOS and Linux). >>> >> >> VTs? How about a VAX 11/782 with two LA120s, one per CPU. :-) >> >> There were advantages in hardcopy consoles when dealing with system >> crashes or boot problems. > > I did use a LA120 on a PDP-15...Ah, I only ran RSX on a PDP-11. Did you ever come across the SB "Shoe Box"-11 systems? We used them as graphics processors on CAD workstattions linked to the VAX by RS232 serial lines.>> >> Oh, I will confess to once owning W95 and W98 machines, but I do >> remember finally issuing the command "# rm -r /C". >> >-- J Martin Rushton MBCS -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20181103/fb4f3d63/attachment-0001.sig>