@DrOakRx Welcome to the forum; we enjoy people from all sorts of backgrounds and we look forward to having a blast with you!
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Welcome to our community @DrOakRx, thanks for joining us! 
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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to join this community! It is great being a part of
the Linux family. I started my journey in 1996 with Slackware and still have the floppies in
my collection of distro CD’s! I am looking forward to some fun dialogs.
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Nice. Haha we were reminiscing on some floppy nostalgia a few weeks ago:
Welcome to our community @richd
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Welcome to the forums @richd, great to have you join us! 
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@richd Welcome to the forum! I also started my Linux journey with Slackware, perhaps just a few months before you in late 1995, though I have been a past Unix user since 1982 and I joined a Unix organization in 1995. A few people who ironically attended the same university as I did were chatting about Linux software and I had been looking into it already; their conversation and mention of Slackware sent me out looking for both hardware and software; when I found a suitable combination I bought the first PC I had for my own personal use.
As for CDs, DVDs and USB Flash Drives, though I haven’t kept all of them, I still have quite a collection and I’ve pulled out old ones a few times; some work, some won’t work at all even on my oldest system.
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Ironically, in 1995 I was inadvertently caught in a Windows 95 local commercial! I started my career on a pdp11 in 1981. Writing in cobol for a jewelry manufacturing company, RT-11 os.
I then got involved with a local Unix group at our local university ,and other than having to use Macintoshes because of the company I worked for , never looked back.
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Is there any chance this is on YouTube? haha. Welcome to the forums Windows fan! 
jk!
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. Nope just in the wrong place at the wrong time!
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hola a todos, los saludo desde argentina, amante de linux y de la tecnologia
saludos
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Thanks, Brian. RTE in particular is from HP, acronym for ‘Real Time Executive’, a direct successor of another HP product named DOS for ‘Disk Operating System’ -we are talking 80’s and I believed that the world was a tiny place back then… No relation with MS-DOS or PC-DOS that I recall…
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Hey, my name is franco. I live in Chile. I’m a programmer at home.
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¡Hola, Carlos!
Hablo y escribo un poco de español (estudié en 10.º y 11.º grado de secundaria), pero está bastante oxidado.
Verás que la mayoría de las comunicaciones en este sitio utilizan el Inglés como “lengua franca”.
Probablemente obtendrás más respuestas a tus preguntas si usas un traductor como Google Translate (que yo usé aquí) para traducir tus comentarios al inglés. Luego, puedes revisar el texto y modificarlo para asegurarte de que la interpretación de lo que preguntas o describes sea la correcta.
Espero que te parezca bien.
¡Bienvenido a la comunidad! ¡Somos más fuertes cuando provenimos de una mayor diversidad de experiencias sociales!
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Hello, Carlos!
I speak/write a bit of Spanish (High-School Grade 10 & 11), but it is very rusty.
You will find that most communication on this site uses English as the “Lingua Franca”.
You will likely get more responses to your inquiries if you use something like Google Translate (which I used here) to translate your comments to English, then you can review that text to modify it to ensure it is giving the proper interpretation for what you are asking or describing.
Hope that approach is OK for you.
Welcome to the Community! We are stronger when we come from a wider range of societal experiences!
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Could not agree with this more. Thanks for ensuring everyone feels the same welcome. 
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Welcome to the community @carlos!
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Hi, @lorien welcome to the forums!
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Hi Simon from Germany. Was first interested in Kali Distro for Security reasons. Then bought a macBook an asked myself why there is such a performance gap between my macBook and my waaaay overpowered WinOS. So I chose to update my Win to a Linux.
cheers Simon
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Hi @BitBaron, Welcome to the Community
That’s an interesting journey from WinOS to MacBook, and finally to Linux. Glad to have you here, hope you enjoy exploring the distro
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Welcome to the community @BitBaron, thanks for joining us!
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