Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Panteltje Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.survival Subject: Re: ANOTHER Boeing Incident - Dozens Injured Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:25:44 GMT Message-ID: References: <81WdnQabXZs34XL4nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@earthlink.com> <%zjIN.124579$wDMd.15765@fx07.ams1> <6pycnd2zw7s-9G_4nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@earthlink.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:25:45 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="1433411"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (Linux-5.15.32-v7l+) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v9XsUUZHT+Ex0IJOa0eyXgI3rcM= X-User-ID: eJwFwYkBwEAEBMCWvEvKwdF/CZlxBWPC4DA/P9hg4/WqYKCbRzGsW2ZIy2y68sphaX6PMokj5lg+8WjYD1O6FQc= X-Newsreader-location: NewsFleX-1.5.7.5 (c) 'LIGHTSPEED' off line news reader for the Linux platform NewsFleX homepage: http://www.panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/ and ftp download ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/system/news/readers/ Bytes: 3246 Lines: 38 On a sunny day (Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:17:51 +0100) it happened D wrote in : > > >On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, rbowman wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:06:10 -0400, 68hx.1804 wrote: >> >> >>> It's an East/West diff ... the west loves the idea of "all-purpose" >>> while east trends more towards "mission-specific". >> >> It's more my personality than vice versa but I've always preferred the >> Unix/Linux philosophy of a program that does one thing very well that can >> be chained together with similar programs. > >Amen! I've only used linux for the last 20 years or so and it is not >possible to go back to windows. > >What's interesting is that my father, who is 73, has been using linux for >at least 10 years, with adblockers and all, and when he sees a friend >using windows he always asks me "How can people stand it?". > >We don't know. Right I started with Linux in 1998 when it came as free CD with some magazine. was called 'SLS Linux'. As I had already some experience with Unix at work and a good Unix book it took a day or so to get started. It had a free C compiler, ggc, but no Usenet news-reader like Free Agent so one of the first things I did was write one, using it now on a Raspberry Pi4 8 GB to post this. https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/index.html that is an old x86 version, the current libforms GUI library may not work. The raspi version is still under test, so have not published the code (yet). Seem to work OK with some GUI restrictions.