Greetings from Finland
 

Hi!

Just a short note from a Unix geek ;-)

Welcome rcraven :welcomeani:
Must be cold up your way. I guess you can't wait for spring-summer. :) The end of our summer weather down here but still some nice warm days.
Unix as in Mac OSX or Linux variations, or Unix in general? :)

Thanks :-)

As a matter of fact, the Finnish weather is far from what it used to be 'in the good old days'; for example, currently we have very little snow here in Helsinki, temperature is 2 degrees Celcius (35.6 F), so it's very moderate. One has to travel well over 800 km (497 mi) in order to see some frost - almost to the other end of Finland :-)

Nevertheless, we are certainly waiting for the summer. I can hardly wait for the 'weather prophets' to come out with their expectations regarding the summer, but I expect this year it's going to be very warm.

What comes to Unixen, I simply do Unix. Was it Linux (I run a mix of Ubuntu and Xfce in my laptop), OS X or some other commercial version. I started with operating systems around 1984 (CP/M - I wonder how many users of this forum even knows this one?) and carried on with Xenix in 1987, so I have seen quite a bunch of different derivates and versions :-) Ubuntu is definitely my favourite, I have been using it since version 7.10.

Cheers,

r

Yes CP/M was an earlier or pre-DOS AFAIK used I think mostly on mainframes. You can correct me there of course lol :D I am aware of Xenix, I think a variation of Unix I think designed for mini computers, some commands were different. :)

Well 2 C would be freezing for us. Goes to show what people get used to in their local climate. :) Not sure you'd cope well with 40-45 C like our summers tend to have on the hottest days.

Well, close but no cigar :-) CP/M was designed by Digital for microcomputers using either Intel 8080 or later compatible Zilog Z80 CPU. Just wonder - you could write a book using a system consisting of two 51/4" floppy disks (one for the software, the other for the text) and 64KB of memory... OK, no WYSIWYG there (well, with text terminal...?), but still. I reckon nowadays the laptops sold with Vista don't have less than 2GB!

Hmm, and from Vista we reach two Microsoft's ... 'interesting' decisions. Namely, both Xenix and OS/2 were developed by MS (OS/2 in co-operation with IBM), but MS decided to give up with both. I don't know the reasoning with Xenix case, OS/2 dilemma was caused by Windows 3.0 (yiks!).

40-45 C is a bit too warm for me, at least for a longer period of time (though, in sauna I prefer >100 C - but I don't stay in there for weeks :D). There are lot of Finns enjoying of this kind of warmth, so places like Spain, Greece islands, Turkey or nowadays Thailand are extremely popular for taking holidays. I prefer a bit cooler places :).

I spent time in Thailand for a holiday a couple of months ago. It was hotter here when I returned lol :D

You seem to know your stuff. :)

welcome to this forum