Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Linux at work in the old days Date: 22 Dec 2025 19:18:07 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <10gh6oj$83hq$8@dont-email.me> <10ghqrq$g7pg$1@dont-email.me> <693d5437$0$2499$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <7a611mx9gf.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <693ea5fa$0$28070$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10i8usb$2oo2c$3@dont-email.me> <10ibd2n$3fnup$3@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net +sqSgevRQ/NNlnFithN3rA1LK/xd9qMhFvJ7soJuXv7yc4SR1z Cancel-Lock: sha1:MejSMSrdVG1Qd9YF0I3kj2iYBLo= sha256:cYfaLIYAEy2f65b7SaDkbL7dJBfUb9WRuUN/pEQ+hTI= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79700 alt.folklore.computers:232771 On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 07:20:37 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > Lots of other fun, like doing my own security/kernel updates, running a > Linux box at work. (One manager ran a Mac, apparently supported by IT). All programmers had a Linux box in addition to a Windows one. The product had started on AIX so almost all the code could be built on Linux. IT would drop off a bare metal box and leave rapidly. Installing a distro and maintaining it was strictly on us. The Esri API was built on COM so I spent more time developing on Windows than most of the programmers. There was also a map program built one Visual Studio 6.0 that wound up in my lap. I tried to drag it into the 21st century but never could. I did a couple of browser based maps but the clients loved that obsolete POS. I had a powered down XP machine with VS6.0 in case I ever had to do a bug fix.