From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] 1L? Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:34:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <86lg2r7ggb.fsf@zoho.eu> <86r2cclur7.fsf@dod.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="34033"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 13 21:34:36 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gu1Ep-0008dY-HY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:34:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gu1Eo-00058F-HK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:34:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40081) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gu1Ed-00057u-8h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:34:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gu1Ec-00088V-Cx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:34:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=48116 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gu1Ec-000855-5j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:34:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gu1EV-0008Di-Vs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 21:34:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:3NTlmAkRtv66Xa+6ar1rPobhCG4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119391 Archived-At: > AOL! Except my switch was when a SuSE distro failed to upgrade in 2001. Hmm... my switch to Debian was in 2003 (I was using Redhat before because it was not my own machine(s), so I only had a chance to choose in 2003, after 7 years without owning a computer (my earlier computer couldn't run GNU/Linux anyway, it was limited to MiNT)). > The machine I initially installed debian on actually survived to 2016 (a > 1996 vintage PII 233MHz), My initial machine (Thinkpad X30) was brand new in 2003, so it's still alive and kicking (although its mouse buttons are dead, so I have to use keyboard emulation of mouse clicks), still running Debian testing. I use it to project PDF slides in class. Actually, I also remember now that another selling point for Debian was the "testing" version, which lets you do "lots of small painless upgrades" instead of "less frequent but more painful upgrades". Stefan