Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 5/26/25 7:39 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 26/05/2025 05:13, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 25 May 2025 21:37:09 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>

Wait ... that means they are, or were, interested in “discovering
Windows”
back in the XP days, otherwise they would never have discovered how it
worked ...

>
In my case, it was the 3.1 days. I migrated from CP/M to MSDOS which
wasn't a huge move. A friend saw the future in Windows and jumped on the
bandwagon with Windows 1.0. As a user it sucked; as a developer the
documentation sucked even more. After listening to him whine (whinge) I
wasn't eager to move to Windows.
>

The company didn't really move till windows 3.1 as we could do all we wanted in DOS. And SCO Unix.

   My corp didn't want to pay for SCO - it WAS
   kinda high, and sucked a lot of disk/CPU
   compared to DOS/Winders.

Then everybody wanted to play with windows, so we let them and productivity dropped and support costs went up. Sigh.

   Yep !  :-)

Later it was a mixture of SUN clones running SUNOS and system V. and Windows up to around 95.
 Finally some linux added to the mix. Then I retired. ran 95 for a while then XP, but then linux windowing systems got stable enough and good enough to use them as a desktop.
 Ran XP in parallel until Vbox showed up. Then one less machine.
 Linux is not simply the most stable and versatile operating system I have ever used, and more than good enough.
 I stopped looking at other distros.

   "Linux" is kind of fractured now ... gone off
   in SO many directions. Linus may dictate the
   kernel - how OLD is Linus now ? - but the whole
   look/feel varies WIDELY by distro.
   For CORPORATE servers and such, I'd now trend
   towards one of the BSDs. NOT the best for
   'desktop' though, as I recently experienced.
   MOST biz will just go Winders. It's COMMON, many
   entities support it, the online Office/storage
   is almost The Standard (despite flaws few bother
   to notice). The COSTS ... well ... just write it
   into the budget. Besides, you WANT to be "normal",
   Winders Stuff, that way you can't be "criticized".
   Experienced THAT personally - and quickly retired.
   It's a big shift from 30 years ago. The pointy-haired
   bosses now make the tech decisions instead of the
   experienced tekkies. Horrible. LOCAL servers and
   backups - RIDICULOUS ! M$ will handle it ALL, and
   YOU can't be blamed when it all goes to hell.
   Oh well, Vlad and Xi LOVE that everyone depends on
   Winders stuff now - just ONE easy blow and it ALL
   goes down forever ........
   Still hoping for a neo-VMS ... a system well ahead of
   its time. Alas $$$ seems to be in the way, we'll
   never see it.
   Note both Linux (RHEL-derived) and Plan-9 are ported
   to the IBM Big Black Mainframe Boxes now.