Old Boar

Many Linux Commands are the same as UNIX commands (which go back to the early 1970s) or an evolution or successors of those. Edit: Some command names (such as "ls" to list the files in a directory) even seem older, being inherited from the mid-to-late 1960s Multics -> Unics -> Unix -> Linux.

Only started playing recently, these are my first attempts at space stations: OBSS1: Old Boar Space Station One OBSS2: Old Boar Space Station Two I guess my rockets prove how much of a noob I still am... but I'm most proud that I got the thing up and in orbit.

I guess I'm too new to vote on this forum. Using Xubuntu. Started out trying Slackware but did not get it running (could not detect my hard disk). The first distro I got running was Redhat 4.5* in 1997 in text mode, then Redhat 5.0 with XWindows. Was a SuSE user between 1998 & 2008, (X)Ubuntu since then. * Weird, that version did not exist according to the version history, but I am sure I remember it that way... It came as a CD in a book, perhaps an unofficial version by the book's author.

Thanks all for the warm welcome. @Esme: yes, that is exactly what I mean.

Hi, I just started playing KSP two weeks ago, and I'm totally hooked! I am a long time "Elite" player (Elite 1984, Archimedes Elite, Oolite & recently Elite: Dangerous about which I am somewhat disappointed), was in for something more hardcore (in the physics/mathematics sense) and so I had started playing the early access of Rogue System. Because of Rogue System, I need & want to learn more about orbital mechanics, so I started searching the net and found that xkcd cartoon graph 1356 which most here probably already know. OK, bought Kerbal Space Program, and a whole new world has opened itself to me -- well, a whole virtual solar system of worlds that is. I like learning as such, but this is such a fun way to do it. It makes me feel young again. Playing with far too many addons on my Windows machine (and now deselecting them one by one to figure out which one causes the game crashing, but perhaps it is not any single one but rather the amount/combination of them), and plain vanilla without any toppings on my Linux laptop (I was surprised this morning on how dependent I already am on the addons and how it had caused me to not learn some basic techniques of the game). In "real" life, I am teaching maths, information systems and philosophy of science at Brussels University (VUB) and working on a PhD about axiomatic systems for relativity theory. Before that, I worked as a programmer/electronics designer/sysadmin for about 20 years, among others at the Royal Observatory of Brussels (not observing the king, but the celestial bodies).