hey guys i am mary4 you may know me by now as that 286@25mHz and amiga 2000 hd systems owner.
i am a definite vintage computing enthusiast. i am 34 as of right now i am in Fort Worth, TX. i am a total sweet heart and my discord is mary4.
my server is down as of rn because i am trying to fix it
i fixed it mostly. it is going to be hosted at http://4ch.mooo.com
i use Debian GNU/Linux as my main modern os and i play ALOT of VRChat!
i need to play more games in general
i use FreeDOS on my PCs~ :D
the system i am posting from is my amiga 2000 HD
my mind is going blank
oh yeah i have bad mental illnesses xD
but i am doiung great! XD
i finished uni with 2 degrees! <3
Electrical Engeneering Technology and Computer Science are my 2 degrees!
i am originally from Monroe, LA
i love the bbs my time here has been amazing! <3

feel free to dm me on discord. and when my server is online just join my irc channel ircs://4ch.mooo.com or irc://4ch.mooo.com and the channel is #yotsubanome

<3

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i use Debian GNU/Linux as my main modern os and i play ALOT of VRChat!

Another debhead here. Have you upgraded to 12/trixie yet?


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Hello mary4!

On 02 Sep 2025, mary4 said the following...

hey guys i am mary4 you may know me by now as that 286@25mHz and amiga 2000 hd systems owner.

Very nice! Thanks for the intro, and nice to meet another one into Computer Science! (Although I graduated quite some time ago now... time flies!)

I'm also into electronics, and used to fiddle a lot with that in the mid/late 90s. Nowadays I'm mostly replacing capacitors on motherboards for some future retro PCs (although it won't be extremely retro, one P4 and one Athlon XP). =)

I'm also running Debian 13, but only for the BBS -- my daily driver is still an old PC, now running Windows 11. =)

Best regards
Zip

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welcome!

i need to play more games in general

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just do what you enjoy. it may not be games at all \_/|\_/

oh yeah i have bad mental illnesses xD

same. sucks when the mind doesn't do what you want it to (or too much of!)

but i am doiung great! XD

this is the important thing :) Hope that doesn't change for the worse

Electrical Engeneering Technology and Computer Science are my 2 degrees!

dam, i've been debating going back to uni for a second. i got bach in comp sci, and masters in software engineering. basically none of my jobs have applied most of the stuff I learnt, only the skill of how to learn well. I liked the technical level of uni stuff compared to modern day industry work (or maybe im in the wrong country for the good work haha)

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Dumas Walker wrote to MARY4 <=-

Another debhead here. Have you upgraded to 12/trixie yet?

12 is Bookworm? 13 is Trixie?

I upgraded my Proxmox boxes to 9.0, they're running trixie in the
background. I don't see any difference.

I've been trying to find a distro for use as a desktop, trying to find
the right eye candy. Mint is nice, Bodhi is interesting, but I might go
back to Debian and focus on an old-school window environment.



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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Dumas Walker <=-

Dumas Walker wrote to MARY4 <=-

Another debhead here. Have you upgraded to 12/trixie yet?

12 is Bookworm? 13 is Trixie?

I upgraded my Proxmox boxes to 9.0, they're running trixie in the background. I don't see any difference.

I've been trying to find a distro for use as a desktop, trying to find
the right eye candy. Mint is nice, Bodhi is interesting, but I might go back to Debian and focus on an old-school window environment.

Take a look at "MX Linux". Debian based (with a touch of
Mepis/antiX) and very nice. As a longtime Slackware user, it's the only
other distro I can tolerate as a desktop. Some nice custom tools.



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12 is Bookworm? 13 is Trixie?

Yes, that is correct. ;)

I upgraded my Proxmox boxes to 9.0, they're running trixie in the
background. I don't see any difference.

I've been trying to find a distro for use as a desktop, trying to find
the right eye candy. Mint is nice, Bodhi is interesting, but I might go
back to Debian and focus on an old-school window environment.

On my BBS machine, I didn't see much difference. On my other machine, I
did notice some odd quirks that have more to do with the software that was upgraded... the GIMP, Audacity, Shotcut... but the OS seems mostly the
same. I didn't do any fresh installs this time, but I think it comes with Gnome by default, which is more eye candy than I would like. I am using
IceWM on the BBS machine, and have the other one set up where I can use Gnome-flashback or LXQt.


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Another debhead here. Have you upgraded to 12/trixie yet?

all systems upgraded! :D i am on debian 13 on my main systems and cabable systems!

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Very nice! Thanks for the intro, and nice to meet another one into Computer Science! (Although I graduated quite some time ago now... time flies!)

yo based!

I'm also into electronics, and used to fiddle a lot with that in the mid/late 90s. Nowadays I'm mostly replacing capacitors on motherboards
for some future retro PCs (although it won't be extremely retro, one P4 and one Athlon XP). =)

even better i wanna get into this more i have a degree that went into this! <3

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just do what you enjoy. it may not be games at all \_/|\_/

i wanna play games again!

same. sucks when the mind doesn't do what you want it to (or too much
of!)
this is the important thing :) Hope that doesn't change for the worse

i already got horrible mental illnesses
schizoaffective disorder bipolar type
cPTSD

dam, i've been debating going back to uni for a second. i got bach in
comp sci, and masters in software engineering. basically none of my jobs have applied most of the stuff I learnt, only the skill of how to learn well. I liked the technical level of uni stuff compared to modern day industry work (or maybe im in the wrong country for the good work haha)

xD it is ok!

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Another debhead here. Have you upgraded to 12/trixie yet?

all systems upgraded! :D i am on debian 13 on my main systems and cabable systems!

Ooops, I see I typed "12" but meant "13". :) Someone else pointed that
out but it didn't sink in until just now.

I have found that it mostly just worked. The only issues I have had are
with some of the software, like the GIMP, where the package installs brand
new config files in the userspace. So now I get to go back and try to fix
all my presets back to what they should be... probably just in time for the next release. ;)


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