Yet another newbie

[riscosdave]

Hi everyone,
I have decided to join the linux forums.
Linux is not my preferred OS, RISC OS is; but there are a lot of things I can't do on RISC OS and I then turn to linux (Xandros) on my EeePC.

[BoDiddley]

ok, well - welcome anyhow.

[elija]

We won't judge you... well not too harshly anyway *_*

Hey wait a minute... is that the Acorn OS from way back in the 80s? you must be nearly as old as I am

[rokytnji]

Howdy and Welcome from another EEEPC user (left Xandros long ago)

                               
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harry@Biker:/mnt/sdb1/home/harry$ inxi -F
System:    Host: Biker Kernel: 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) 
           Desktop IceWM 1.3.7 Distro: antiX-M11-686 Jayaben Desai 01 May 2011
Machine:   System: ASUSTeK product: 900 version: 0405
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 900 version: x.xx Bios: American Megatrends version: 0601 date: 05/26/2008
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron M (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (nx sse sse2) clocked at 900.059 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller 
           X.Org: 1.10.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1024x600@59.5hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 915GM x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 7.10.3
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller driver: HDA Intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.23
Network:   Card-1: Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet driver: atl2 
           IF: eth0 state: down speed: 65535 Mbps duplex: full mac:<filtered>
           Card-2: Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath5k 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filtered>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 20.2GB (13.0% used) 1: /dev/sda ASUS 4.0GB 
           2: /dev/sdb ASUS 16.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 3.7G used: 2.2G (61%) fs: auto 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 57.0C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 1590 
Info:      Processes: 93 Uptime: 30 min Memory: 173.5/2016.4MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.23

[MASONTX]

Welcome to the forum. Glad to have you join us.

[riscosdave]

We won't judge you... well not too harshly anyway *_*

Hey wait a minute... is that the Acorn OS from way back in the 80s? you must be nearly as old as I am

Yes, it is. It was also the first OS to run on ARM processors and still does. For example, it runs on the BeagleBoard that has a Texas Instruments OMAP3 SoC with ARM Cortex-A8 processor. There is a version being developed for the OMAP4 SoC.