Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by matthavener on Thursday August 25, 2011 @11:27AM (#2925187)

One of my favorite memories from /. was refreshing to see a new version of the kernel was available. You'd spend a few hours downloading it, compiling, and reboot. Usually there were no new features you wanted, no bugs fixed, just the idea of being on the bleeding edge was "cool" enough.

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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by mrcapers on Thursday August 25, 2011 @11:56AM (#2925294)

+1 this. remember doing this when i was 12 or 13 in late 90s/early 00s. /. made it exciting to be a geek.

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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by zem on Thursday August 25, 2011 @07:03PM (#2926732)

being on a rolling release distro means you still get the thrill of running a bleeding-edge kernel :) and no, i never really outgrew that.

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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by pixelcloud on Thursday August 25, 2011 @08:18PM (#2926894)

Now everyone uses macbooks... Oh how the times have changed.

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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by rufugee on Thursday August 25, 2011 @11:50PM (#2927317)

Not everyone... ;-) Linux on the desktop since 97. I've tried Windows, OS X, and nothing can replace the productivity I get from Linux.

Slashdot will always be home to me. I haven't visited my real home town in over a decade, and sadly, /. is headed towards the same fate.

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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by SwellJoe on Friday August 26, 2011 @12:07PM (#2928888)

I'd wager that more nerds run Linux on the desktop (or laptop) now than they did back when Slashdot was getting started. The biggest loser of developer mindshare in the years since has been Windows.

But, no one (in their right mind) is using Mac OS on the server, and any developer with a successful website has a lot more servers than they have laptops or desktops, so I reckon they're more of a "Linux user" than a "Mac user".

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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by glassx on Thursday August 25, 2011 @10:45PM (#2927157)

Yeah, but most of us who grew up and started using MacBooks still run Linux on our servers, we still that bit of /. inside us :)

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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by Yaggo on Friday August 26, 2011 @02:57AM (#2927657)

... and the same GNU tools on our MacBooks.

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Re:Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot by sitkack on Friday August 26, 2011 @03:25AM (#2927712)

Wow, jesus, dammit.

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