hpr1318 :: How I found Linux
Sunzofman1's journey to Linux
Hosted by Sunzofman1 on Wednesday, 2013-08-21 is flagged as Explicit and is released under a CC-BY-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.
1st PC 95 wfw win3.11 installed with jumbo tracker colorado no ownership in HS and prior to '95 recognition of internet '94 ncsa mosaic hunger for web page builds Sparc1 - SunOS pizza boxes / DEC Alpha / VAX/VMS stoked curiosity UNIX Unix Renaissance FAMU --> https://www.famu.edu Linux Unleashed - Slackware 2.0 kernel 1.2.13 filesystem inspection, file ownership, permissions, basic scripts Networking - Token Ring / Ethernet / IBM 4381 Trumpet winsock / NetBEUI / dial-up networking modems cash service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsock slackware PPP chatscripts / robotics 14.4K modem winnt 4.0 network YP/NIS - 25 machines /etc/passwd redhat 4.2 , slackware desktop of choice, debian potato, use debian for business deployment mostly web services, openvpn, asterisk (centos) mythtv arch - knoppmyth --> LinHES many thanks to ken fallon, dann washko, klaatu