Fedora's audience

[ergodic]

OK I am 82.  My first Fedora Core install was FC-3 and before that Red Hat 4 if 
my memory does not trick me.

Today running in different boxes, F-18, F-19, F-20beta.
Multibooting Debian Wheezy, F-19 and Windows 8.1.

My most sincere thanks to all the developers and contributors.
Well done.

M. A. MacLain
 
----- Original Message -----
> Sorry for top posting. This phone doesn't allow bottom posting.
> 
> I'm 57 years old and I have been using linux, more on than off, since
> 1997, and exclusively since 2003 or so.
> I find it is more stable than either windows or macos and more usable
> than dos, even at the command prompt.
> 
> Hth
> 
> Dave
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net>
> Sender: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 18:25:02
> To: <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users
> <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Fedora's audience
> 
> 
> 	Recent exchanges here and in related places have reminded me
> strongly of long discussions held on RedHat lists fifteen or twenty
> years
> ago.
> 
> 	Was (now is) RH/F, and Linux generally, *for* all & sundry? Or
> was/is it essentially a plaything of the Alpha Plus Technoids? Which
> *should* it be?
> 
> 	That distinction applied to shoes and ships and sealing wax, to
> cabbages and kings; i.e., all the way from designing new apps for
> GUI,
> for CLI only, or for some compromise -- to what sorts of posters and
> questions ought to be welcome or unwelcome on the public lists.
> 
> 	I remember pointing out repeatedly that when the Baby Boomers
> began to retire, and cease to be bound to their employers' systems,
> some
> fraction of them would take up Linux -- and it wouldn't need a very
> big
> fraction of their numbers to make a substantial difference to Linux.
> 
> 	To the best of my recollection, that issue never resolved into
> any consensus. RedHat changed its whole strategy, and suddenly many
> of us
> had far more urgent concerns than just the philosophic ones.
> 
> 	 By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring
> in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more
> fellow
> retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here
> have
> such numbers, or know of a source from whence to get them?
> 
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
> Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
> 
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