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@nixCraft
Question is vague. Paid to work on - as in - work on the Linux distro itself? Or work on - as in work on software that ran on the distro?

First Unix/Linux I worked on (used) was probably SCO.

First Unix/Linux I was paid to work on itself, was Ubuntu in 2012-2021.

@nixCraft
In the 1990s at Deloitte Consulting, I ran OS/2 Warp on a beige Compaq "server" (desktop) as a remote dial-in box for Lotus cc:Mail. It had a "Digi" branded 8-way serial card attached to 8 US Robotics modems.

The phone lines were in a hunt group to round-robin the calls.
The clients were Dell Latitude XP & XPi, 486 & Pentium 100/133 machines running Windows 3.11.

Some clients dialed in every minute to get their mail, which was insane. I dread to think what their phone bills were!

@itsfoss

One criteria:

✔ That it's #ubuntu

I started using it in late 2004, and have been using it ever since. I see no reason to switch.

@nixCraft

this many

@mntmn The main distros have updates already.This is vastly overblown.

@nixCraft I use whatever is shipped.

@nixCraft Not answering this, for opsec reasons

@nixCraft It'll be interesting to see what works and what doesn't on this machine. A real opportunity for enthusiasts to help test, file issues and provide help in porting open source software to a newer architecture. This seems like a great project. I hope it's reasonably priced, and decent availability.

@nixCraft Linux had a similar feature years ago. It was designed to track everything you did, so you could find "That document I was editing last Tuesday" or "The music I was listening to while coding that application" and all manner of other complex searches. It was shipped by default in multiple distros. I don't think it took screenshots, but it gathered a hell of a lot of useful, searchable data.

@itsfoss The point I was making was not that you're saying it's impossible to install a deb.

The snarky point I was making was that a year ago you were fine recommending people install gdebi. Now you're incandescent with rage with a software choice in a product. It's all a little bit overblown.

Take a step back and think why it might not be a good idea in general to make it easy to install random debs from the internet?

On install, they run as root, and can do literally anything. 🤷

Hey @itsfoss - This you?
What a difference a year makes, huh?

Bit weird. Maybe have a lie down.

#linux #ubuntu

@itsfoss u ok, hun? 🤗

@nixCraft

[ X ] - Because I like it.

@nixCraft She studied at the college where I worked. I was too shy to talk, though. So, I never knew her name, and she didn't know mine.

It took five years before I approached her in a nightclub (Pantiles, Camberley, now knocked down and is an old people's home - appropriate), and we chatted for a while.

I asked, "What are the chances, if I ask, that I can get your number?" She replied, "Quite high." So I asked, she gave it, and the barman loaned me a pen. Then she left shortly after...

@mntmn I wonder how much Mozilla makes from that. I know when we had the web app icon in Ubuntu (not the “shopping lens”) it made a decent revenue to pay for desktop development. Sadly it massively tarnished the company and product in the community. Short term gain.

@nixCraft
sudo light=green

@nixCraft
❌ Incorrect.
btop > bottom > htop

@nixCraft I feel seen.

@Gargron So, zero memes?

@nixCraft Oh, I don't use X. It's a shithole these days. Also, he makes bold claims all the time, and they rarely manifest. I wouldn't hold my breath.