The last round of Ubuntu weirdness had been explained. Random failure from drive's on board controller. Installing on HP 17" laptop because I found a new 750 GB drone I forgot I even had.

Because your client no work from /bin/sh? Working on BSD box with no X11

Could really use something like texapp for 10c.

Books like that are porn to me. :D

I have an acquaintance in California who evangelizes Emacs. I can't bring myself to use it after switching to VIM in 2000. :)

They are moving away from the very concepts that make Unix appealing to begin with. I'm not interested in following them there.

I was recently asked to make one for a customer that was compatible with the one they have been running on a DOS machine.

This was answered with, "No thank you".

I've moved almost all of my stuff over to it. There are a few things I haven't yet. I still run a RHEL 6 server at the house and at the office for various things. These will eventually be phased completely out.

*nix for life!

Not whatever Linux is slowly mutating into

The way FreeBSD has said, "Eh, whatever. No problem", to everything I've thrown at it so far makes me smile.