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February 8, 2009  3:23 PM

Trip down memory lane for Linux users



Posted by: David Vasta
David on Linux, Linux, Old Linux

I found Linux in the fall of 1997. I was in the Best Buy in Savannah, GA looking for something to buy and saw a red box, I hd heard of Linux, and knew about UNIX, plus at that point I was a pretty decent AS/400 user and admin. So I read the box, labeled REDHAT 5.1, and took it to the check out....

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January 16, 2009  2:10 PM

WKOW – Bashes Ubuntu and they end up paying for it



Posted by: David Vasta
David on Linux, DELL, Ubuntu, WKOW

Ubuntu is a decent OS, and by the looks of everything coming out of Redmond (Microsoft) latley it's starting to look better each day. Maddison, WI local TV station WKOW and it's local help the people person took up some poor woman assertion that DELL...

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January 5, 2009  7:13 PM

David Vasta – Linux for IBM i: Commands and terminology – PART 2



Posted by: David Vasta
David on Linux, Linux, Linux on POWER, Search400.com

I hear Linux is hard, and is for geeks… I am not a geek, so is it still for me? Of course you're not... Now that we have cleared that up let's get into how we're going to "talk" to Linux. Linux talks to us people using a shell. It's that green or text-based screen that...

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January 5, 2009  7:11 PM

David Vasta – Linux for IBM i: Introducing Linux to IBM i people-PART 1



Posted by: David Vasta
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The IBM i is a great platform. Not many of you out there will argue that point. It's solid, robust and very powerful. Part of that power is just that power or the hardware that we now call Power. The operating system (OS) is...

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