Yes thanks for the warm welcome 
and the opportunity to be here 
anything i can help with hit me upon my email address [email protected] and yeah im vary interested in anything computing and like server’s and code willing to learn new thing’s
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Welcome to the community @scagunixuser, thanks for joining us! 
Hello everyone,
my name is Manfred, I am from Bavaria in Germany. I work as an SAP Integration Architect, so most of my professional life happens on Linux servers anyway — but for a long time my desktop was still Windows.
That changed a few years ago. At some point I realized I was spending more energy working around Windows than actually working. The switch to Ubuntu was one of the better decisions I made.
I am interested in everything around desktop Linux migrations, especially helping people who come from a Windows background and do not know where to start. That is a topic I have been writing about as well.
Looking forward to the discussions here.
Manfred
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@linuxmalo @Butter @scagunixuser Welcome to the community guys! 
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Welcome to the forums @linuxmalo, great to have you join us! 
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Hi @Butter Welcome to the Community
Curiosity is one of the best reasons to be here. Hope you enjoy exploring, learning new things, and meeting great people in the community!
Welcome to the Community @scagunixuser 
That’s quite a journey—from Windows to Kali Linux and now exploring BSD systems. It’s always great to see someone with a genuine passion for learning and experimenting with different operating systems. Wishing you success on your BSD adventure, and I hope you enjoy being part of the community! 
Welcome, to the Community @linuxmalo
Your experience helping people transition from Windows to Linux sounds incredibly valuable. It’s always great to have someone in the community who combines professional Linux experience with a passion for teaching others. Looking forward to your insights and discussions!
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@Butter have you ever watched the movie Moonstruck, starting Cher and Nicolas Cage? Your “handle” reminded me of an exchange between Loretta (Cher) and her boss at the funeral home: “I’m a genius!” the funeral director said. Loretta responded, “You’ve got butter on your tie!”
A warm Moonstruck welcome to you today!
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Welcome, @linuxmalo !
You may wish to review some of the links offered in the following posting.
Enjoy! 
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Welcome @linuxmalo !
I believe this is the same company, but of course, so many things have changed!
Way back in the early 1980s I believe I used SAP for generating telephony traffic analysis information that telephone and data engineers utilized for leasing or purchasing telephony “trunks”. Prior to using SAP we were using an old tool called DS/3. SAP was quite a step “up” at the time; DS/3 was just a reporting tool; with SAP we could easily vary our data sample size and see how “small” of a sample we could use and still obtain a statistically relevant traffic analysis report.
If that is indeed the same company, it’s been quite useful; history tells me that a few German engineers spun off from some work with IBM and possibly other companies to initially form SAP. Is that also your understanding of the company history?
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Hi Brian,
Yeah, I guess that’s the same company 
Dietmar Hopp and Hasso Plattner were two of the founders. I actually had the chance to meet Hasso Plattner in person. What a charismatic guy!
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That’s really cool! I had heard of SAP a few years before I used it but I had no idea what it could do. A guy that joined our organization, who didn’t necessarily have a lot of expertise in telecommunications (I didn’t at the time either) BUT he had a lot of experience in statistical sampling, analysis, and reporting, so we found SAP to be a big improvement. DS/3 was a nice report writer; it was a LOT easier than writing a PROGRAM in some old report programming language, but it didn’t help us one iota with the data sampling.
In those days even mainframe computer systems were not powerful enough to deal with entire full length, extensive records; we were trying to do telecom traffic analysis, a perfect application for SAP. I added some other improvements - the guys were generating magnetic tape images from one system to another and they had a whopping SIX tapes - why? because their “blocking factor” was ONLY five records at a time. I experimented with 3-4000 byte instead of 80/400 blocks and that helped.
Today we wouldn’t even use tapes and we may go anywhere from 1M to something vastly broader, and we’d use some kind of solid state media in which to perform ALL operations! How things have changed over my lifetime!
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Hi this is Danny here from the Netherlands, on my way to take the RHCSA exam and trying to build/strengthen my Linux skills
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Welcome to the community @Danny, thanks for joining us!
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Hi @Danny, Welcome to the Community
Good luck with your RHCSA exam. I hope everything goes smoothly and you achieve the results you’re aiming for. It’s great to see someone investing time in strengthening their Linux skills. Enjoy the learning journey and don’t hesitate to ask questions here. The Linux community is always full of people willing to help.
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Welcome to the community @Danny
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Hi, I’m Bryan from Kardinya in Western Australia. I am a newly retired community nurse. Used unix in the early 90s when working in aviation. I now have time to explore Linux and to discover what it can do.
I hope to pick the brains of others.
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Welcome to the community @Clonaz2 thanks for joining us.
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Welcome to the forums @Clonaz2, nice to meet you!
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Welcome to the forum @Danny and best wishes on the RHCSA exam!
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Welcome to the forum @Clonaz2, a.k.a. Bryan. I’m Brian with an I - the name that some people misspell as “Brain”, which brings a quick chuckle. We enjoy dialogue and we are usually helpful too.
I recommend reading some of our articles and threads, then ask questions based on what you have read to clarify your understanding. Enjoy; hope to see you around often!
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