hpr0647 :: How I Got Into Linux
brother mouse relates his journey to Linux
Hosted by brother mouse on Tuesday, 2011-01-25 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.
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How I got into tech.
Started by monsterb, this series invites people to share with us how they found Linux. It has become traditional for first time hosts to share with us their journey to Linux. Indeed it has morphed to be way to share your journey in tech right up to your first contribution to HPR.
Linux-specific content starts at the 15min mark. Until then is all the computer geekery that led up to my first linux exposure. Feel free to skip forward if you don't want to hear about old systems like the Commodores, TI, 5.25" floppies, FidoNet BBS, etc.
URLs referenced in this episode
- FidoNet
https://www.fidonet.org/ - Apple data stored on audio cassette tape at 1200 baud:
https://www.pagetable.com/?p=31 - Xubuntu (w/xcfe lighter desktop environment):
https://www.xubuntu.org/ - fluxbox lightweight window manager:
https://www.fluxbox.org - Puppy linux:
https://www.puppylinux.com/ - Tiny Core - brutally small, not for beginners::
https://www.tinycorelinux.com/ - antiX, a light distro:
https://antix.mepis.org/ - Linux on Eee or under virtualbox:
https://muedemaus.blogspot.com/search/label/linux
Clarifications and corrections:
The Apple ][e setup I describe was almost exactly $2000.
I still own the TI 99/4A and BASIC manual; I cranked it up a few years ago. The thing that sticks out is how terrible the keyboard is -- it's almost unusable but seemed fine at the time..