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Over 20 years ago now Australian Personal Computer published a pocket book all about Red Hat with an installation CD as part of the book. At the time I think w
by airbreather 4y ago
Over 20 years ago now Australian Personal Computer published a pocket book all about Red Hat with an installation CD as part of the book.
At the time I think we we still on 28.8k dial up, so apart from the overall consistency of the unix style "everything is a file" approach, I remembered that the packets flowed noticeably faster (less gaps in between) than on Windows. I was sold.
My father is a mathematician who has taught computing and math at high school, tech and university level and he has never owned a computer, in over well 25 years of personal computer ownership, with a windows operating system installed.
For years his favorite linux was Sabayon, for the effortless connectivity to devices, local and networked, followed by Puppy because of the load to ram performance on older PCs.