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   Hello Eric!   
      
   Thursday July 25 2019 00:19, you wrote to All:   
      
    > This echo is too quiet!   
      
    > So who here actually uses Linux as their primary OS for their daily   
    > use? I've been doing so for over 20 years now, through thick and thin,   
    > distro to distro, and not really distro hopping so much as changing   
    > distros every now and then when certain issues arrise, or wanting to   
    > try something different for a while, and end up liking or not liking   
    > depending.   
      
   Switched over to Linux when IBM announced OS/2 being discontinued so late 90's   
   may be and first one was Suse, how ever having got annoyed with german words   
   being used a lot in a English version switched to Mandrake, then Mandriva then   
   with next to go work happeing on it switched again to Mageia and now on v6 all   
   on my primary system server, development, bbs, mysql, apache, ftp etc also   
   running along with IBM MVS based operating systems.   
      
   Media system uses Ubuntu (18.04 I think) with Mythtv s/w.   
      
   Laptop Windows 10   
   My wife's system uses Win 7 Ultimate (not large enough for Win 10) but more   
   importantly she is used to v7.   
      
   Raspberry Pi 3B+ with USB HDD using the standard distro - mostly for Cobol -   
   Java development as an experiment and as a BBS back up so it runs rsync    
   against   
   primary for all MBSE bbs areas four times a day.   
      
   Currently waiting for a X830 USB HDD case and card to be available to update    
   to   
   Pi 4B+ 8Gb but would like a sata interface version but that will not happen    
   any   
   time soon.   
      
   Still looking for a cheap working IBM Multiverse system for the garage so I    
   can   
   run a training / reminder service for fellow ex IBM'ers (Runs on 240 Volts as   
   against 400 three phase). It will also run Linux on one or more LPARs.   
      
      
   Vince   
      
   --- Mageia Linux v6 X64/Mbse v1.0.7.12/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.501-b20150715   
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