By the time I was doing some research at the University, and I used HP-UX (9.05!) and Digital UX too, doing some PVM on top of Debian, HP-UX and DG-UX. Doing C++ templates in 1998 was a real risky thing, as there was no standard for C++ at the time.
I've seen Linux evolving during a great part of its lifetime. During these ten years HP-XU and DG-UX have died, and Linux has survived."
"I tried out the recently released Kubuntu 8/10, to find that KDE4 required too much an effort for me to adopt."
http://www.antonioshome.net/blog/2008/20081217-1.php?cid=e7928
