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In-Depth Series: How I got into tech

  • Number of episodes: 64
  • Open/closed: open
  • Date of earliest show: 2009-04-30
  • Date of latest show: 2024-09-04
  • Series RSS feeds: ogg, spx, mp3
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.

hpr4198 :: Are hobbies pathological? hosted by Lee

Wednesday, 2024-09-04. 00:12:35. Explicit.
retro-computing, mental health, role-playing.

Personal reflections on hobbies, obsessive interests and mental health

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hpr3939 :: How I got into tech and hacking hosted by Trixter

Thursday, 2023-09-07. 00:20:38. Clean.
demoscene, hacking, programming, assembly, gaming.

Getting interested in tech can start in both odd and familiar places. This is Trixter's story.

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hpr3716 :: How I got in to Tech hosted by Lurking Prion

Monday, 2022-10-31. 00:08:51. Explicit.
career, technology.

My journey in to technology

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hpr3669 :: My First Podcast: My Journey into the Computer World hosted by Hipernike

Thursday, 2022-08-25. 00:20:07. Clean.
linux, programming, cibersecurity, robotics, hardware.

How I was introduced into computers, Linux, robotics, programming, cibersecurity and more...

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hpr3663 :: How I got into Tech hosted by Stache_AF

Wednesday, 2022-08-17. 00:05:58. Clean.
tech, personal history, introductions.

Follow-up episode about how I got into tech

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hpr3577 :: Hello and how I got into tech hosted by Sarah

Tuesday, 2022-04-19. 00:07:24. Explicit.
intro, linux.

Hi, I'm Sarah and this is how I got into Tech

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hpr2968 :: Life and Times of a Geek part 3 hosted by Dave Morriss

Wednesday, 2019-12-18. 00:40:41. Explicit.
video recorder, Skinner box, logic gate, digitiser, Dobbie McInnes, Data General, teletype, Cyber-72, APL, Si.

Part 3 of my personal story of experiences with computers

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hpr2953 :: How I got started in Linux hosted by Archer72

Wednesday, 2019-11-27. 00:04:36. Clean.
Linux, FreeBSD, Computers.

How I start in Linux, computing, and Free Software

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hpr2841 :: How I got into Linux (and then some...) hosted by Christopher M. Hobbs

Monday, 2019-06-24. 00:31:04. Clean.
linux, intro, story, discourse, bsd.

A response to the request for "how i got into linux" and a little of my history with Linux/BSD

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hpr2832 :: How I got started in Linux hosted by Shannon Wright

Tuesday, 2019-06-11. 00:02:48. Clean.
linux, introduction.

This is a very brief introduction on what got me into using Linux.

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hpr2088 :: How my wife's grandma got me into linux. hosted by knightwise

Wednesday, 2016-08-03. 00:33:21. Explicit.
linux, ubuntu, suse, mandriva.

Knightwise tells us how his wife's 80 year old grandmother got him into Linux.

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hpr2051 :: My Linux Journey hosted by Tony Hughes AKA TonyH1212

Monday, 2016-06-13. 00:11:49. Clean.
Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Xubuntu, Windows XP, Freespire, Ubuntu, LibreOffice, Linux Mint.

This is a short show where I talk about how I started to use Linux

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hpr2040 :: Why I Use Linux hosted by matthew

Friday, 2016-05-27. 00:05:00. Clean.
linux, Vim, git, grep, Filezilla, LAMP stack, Meteor, Firefox, Chromium.

A short description of why someone would stumble onto Linux and not want to leave.

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hpr1972 :: How I got into Linux hosted by m1rr0r5h4d35

Tuesday, 2016-02-23. 00:20:24. Explicit.
Sony tape recorder, RedHat Linux, Enlightenment E16, dial-up, Mandrake, Debian, Icepack Linux, Slackware, Linux Mint, CrunchBang, OpenBSD.

My first podcast. Me rambling about how I got into Linux.

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hpr1970 :: How I got started with Linux hosted by Swift110

Friday, 2016-02-19. 00:27:45. Clean.
linux.

I talk at length about how I got started with Linux

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hpr1967 :: How I saw the Linux Light at the end of the Windows tunnel hosted by Nacho Jordi

Tuesday, 2016-02-16. 00:14:19. Clean.
Linux, Beginners, Computing history, Gaming.

My personal story of discovery of Linux

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hpr1881 :: My road to Linux hosted by clacke

Monday, 2015-10-19. 00:15:12. Clean.
Urecord, Slirp, Amiga, turbolinux, guix.

I'm so old I actually installed Watchtower on an Amiga and I review 22 years of Linux distributions

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hpr1841 :: My way into Linux hosted by folky

Monday, 2015-08-24. 00:09:36. Explicit.
espeak, East Germany, punched cards, Commodore 64, Atari Mega ST, Macintosh, iMAC, MAC OS, LaTex, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Bodhi, ArchBang.

From punch cards to Manjaro

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hpr1811 :: Life and Times of a Geek part 2 hosted by Dave Morriss

Monday, 2015-07-13. 00:42:38. Explicit.
computer, programming, punched card, paper tape, teletype, graph plotter, Seymour Cray, CDC, Control Data Corporation, CDC 7600, Cray-1, ICL, ALGOL 60, FORTRAN, Pascal.

Part 2 of my personal story of experiences with computers

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hpr1751 :: How I got into Linux hosted by Steve Bickle

Monday, 2015-04-20. 00:18:34. Clean.
Crunchbang.

How I got into linux, LFS and where I use Linux now.

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hpr1664 :: Life and Times of a Geek part 1 hosted by Dave Morriss

Thursday, 2014-12-18. 00:26:54. Explicit.
computer, mainframe, programming, punched card, paper tape, teletype, graph plotter, ALGOL 60.

I've been using computers for more than 40 years. This is part 1 of my story

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hpr1634 :: How I got into Linux hosted by pyrrhic

Thursday, 2014-11-06. 00:17:33. Explicit.
Sansa Clip, Audacity.

How I discovered Linux

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hpr1604 :: How I Got Into Linux hosted by cjm

Thursday, 2014-09-25. 00:18:16. Explicit.
windows, Ubuntu, Puppy, Crunchbang, Arch.

I sum up my experience with linux from 0 to 1!

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hpr1576 :: How I got into Linux hosted by Inscius

Monday, 2014-08-18. 00:27:54. Clean.
Linux, FLOSS, Mac.

This is my story about how I got into computers, computing and GNU/Linux.

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hpr1553 :: TuxJam 33.333 - How we got into Linux hosted by Andrew Conway

Wednesday, 2014-07-16. 01:07:57. Clean.
FOSS, software, creative commons, music.

Kevie and Andrew release TuxJam episode 33 1/3 as an exclusive to HPR on how they got into Linux

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hpr1547 :: My Linux Experience Birthday Special hosted by David Whitman

Tuesday, 2014-07-08. 00:15:22. Explicit.
birthday, Atari, Macintosh Classic, Ubuntu, Mint.

The cake is not a lie, I tell how I got into Linux and what my favorite Birthday Cake is.

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hpr1541 :: How I Came To Linux hosted by Claudio Miranda

Monday, 2014-06-30. 00:36:19. Clean.
BASIC, Mattel Aquarius, Apple IIe, Macintosh, RedHat, SUSE, Mandrake, Slackware.

ClaudioM talks about how he came to computers and to Linux

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hpr1499 :: How I Got Into Computers hosted by Charles in NJ

Thursday, 2014-05-01. 00:59:57. Clean.
DEC, PDP-11/20, ASR-33, RSTS-11, BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, VAX-11/780, Ultrix, Linux, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Slackware.

linux, computing, minicomputers, Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, Basic

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hpr1487 :: How I Found Linux hosted by x1101

Tuesday, 2014-04-15. 00:06:16. Clean.
linux.

New host x1101 describes how he got into Linux

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hpr1472 :: How I Found Linux hosted by Curtis Adkins (CPrompt^)

Tuesday, 2014-03-25. 00:13:59. Clean.
Mandrake, Mandriva, OpenMandriva, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu.

CPrompt^ goes into how he found linux and never looked back...

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hpr1402 :: How I Started Using Linux and Free and Open Source Software hosted by Thaj Sara

Tuesday, 2013-12-17. 00:10:48. Clean.
linux, open source.

My first contribution to HPR: how I came to use Linux and Free/Open Source software

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hpr1384 :: How I Got Into Linux and OSS hosted by Keith Murray

Thursday, 2013-11-21. 00:11:03. Explicit.
Red Hat, Audacity, Notepad++, Windows7, Ubuntu.

New HPR podcaster Keith Murray shares how he came to the Linux and OSS world.

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hpr1381 :: How We Found Linux hosted by Kevin Wisher

Monday, 2013-11-18. 00:57:12. Explicit.
TRS-80, IBM portable PC, modem, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Fedora Core, Freespire, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Debian, MythTV.

Kevin Wisher and Honkey Magoo each discuss their journey to Linux

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hpr1333 :: Introduction / How I Got Into Linux hosted by Matt McGraw (g33kdad)

Wednesday, 2013-09-11. 00:16:39. Clean.
Mac Classic II, FreeBSD, Ubuntu.

A first show from a new host describing their journey to Linux

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hpr1320 :: How I got into Linux hosted by jrobb

Friday, 2013-08-23. 00:06:54. Explicit.
Pascal, RedHat, Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, PHP, MySQL.

jrobb gives a short show about how he got into Linux and programming

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hpr1318 :: How I found Linux hosted by Sunzofman1

Wednesday, 2013-08-21. 00:18:35. Explicit.
computer history.

Sunzofman1's journey to Linux

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hpr1223 :: How I got into linux hosted by Jezra

Wednesday, 2013-04-10. 00:11:59. Explicit.
Windows, Corel Linux, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Python, jedit, geany.

From Windows to Arch with a few other Linux versions along the way

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hpr1133 :: How I got in to Linux hosted by Dick Thomas

Wednesday, 2012-12-05. 00:17:13. Explicit.
ZX Spectrum, Corel Linux, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu.

Another contributor describes their Linux journey

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hpr1129 :: How I got into Linux hosted by aparanoidshell

Thursday, 2012-11-29. 00:09:47. Explicit.
Windows XP, Ubuntu, Unity, Debian, Gnome, CrunchBang.

Another contributor describes their Linux journey

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hpr1007 :: My Linux Adventure, Pt. 2 hosted by Bob Wooden

Monday, 2012-06-11. 00:26:06. Explicit.
linux, knoppix, kde, BSA, OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Samba, Ubuntu, SuSE, OpenSuSE, Debian.

The second part of Bob Wooden's Linux journey

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hpr937 :: How I started with linux hosted by riddlebox

Monday, 2012-03-05. 00:09:08. Explicit.
linux.

Riddlebox talks of his journey to Linux

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hpr928 :: My Linux Adventure, Pt. 1 hosted by Bob Wooden

Wednesday, 2012-02-22. 00:31:03. Explicit.
linux, redhat, fedora, suse, open suse, ltsp, nfs, dhcp.

The first part of Bob Wooden's Linux journey

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hpr918 :: How I Started with Linux Part 2 hosted by Frank Bell

Tuesday, 2012-02-07. 00:15:32. Explicit.
linux, slackware, debian, samba, dns.

Frank Bell continues the story of his journey to Linux

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hpr905 :: Akranis: How I got into Linux hosted by Akranis

Thursday, 2012-01-19. 00:05:49. Explicit.
Smoothwall, Puppy Linux, Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Bash, Bashpodder.

An introductory show from a new host

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hpr901 :: Ahuka: Intro and How I Got Into Linux hosted by Ahuka

Monday, 2012-01-16. 00:30:34. Explicit.
mainframe, punched card, teletype, Sinclair ZX80, PC XT, DOS, Linux, KDE.

An introduction from a new host

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hpr877 :: Welcome Frank Bell hosted by Frank Bell

Monday, 2011-12-12. 00:17:34. Explicit.
linux, slackware.

Frank Bell begins the story of his journey to Linux

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hpr797 :: How I got into linux hosted by Mike Hingley

Monday, 2011-08-22. 00:04:47. Explicit.
Ubuntu.

Mike Hingley's first HPR episode where he describes how he got into Linux

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hpr752 :: My Path to Linux: Knoppix hosted by MrGadgets

Monday, 2011-06-20. 00:12:27. Explicit.
Knoppix, live CD, microdrive, compact flash.

Another part of Mr Gadgets' journey to his daily use of Linux

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hpr750 :: My path to Linux hosted by NewAgeTechnoHippie

Thursday, 2011-06-16. 00:08:52. Explicit.
Redhat Linux, LILO, Fedora, Arch Linux, Maemo, Nokia N900.

In his first episode NewAgeTechnoHippie describes his Linux journey

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hpr742 :: How I Got Into Linux hosted by Dave

Monday, 2011-06-06. 00:07:49. Explicit.
Interview, PC repair, Linux Mint, Mumble.

Ken Fallon interviews Dave over Mumble about his use of Linux

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hpr726 :: Journey to Linux hosted by MrGadgets

Sunday, 2011-05-15. 00:19:37. Explicit.
linux, O/S 2 Warp.

Continuing Mr Gadgets' journey to Linux

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hpr718 :: How I got into Linux hosted by Brotherred

Wednesday, 2011-05-04. 00:07:45. Explicit.
linux.

Brotherred explains how his journey to Linux started with a local Sports radio show

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hpr703 :: My Computer History hosted by Bob Evans

Wednesday, 2011-04-13. 00:04:52. Explicit.
computing history, vintage hardware, nelf.

My Computer History

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hpr698 :: How I Found Linux hosted by code.cruncher

Wednesday, 2011-04-06. 00:22:37. Explicit.
development, dual boot, distrohopping, linux.

code.cruncher explains where they began in computing, and how they found Linux

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hpr696 :: MrGadgets Path toward Linux hosted by MrGadgets

Monday, 2011-04-04. 00:13:43. Explicit.
6502, Z80, 6800, Moog Synthesizer, Commodore PET, TRS-80 Color Computer, KIM-1.

Mr Gadgets talks about how he got to Linux

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hpr671 :: How I Found Linux hosted by dodddummy

Monday, 2011-02-28. 00:24:00. Explicit.
mainframe, linux, distrohopping.

dodddummy's journey to Linux, from mainframes to home computers

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hpr647 :: How I Got Into Linux hosted by brother mouse

Tuesday, 2011-01-25. 00:27:08. Explicit.
linux.

brother mouse relates his journey to Linux

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hpr605 :: How I found Linux hosted by Johninsc

Friday, 2010-11-26. 00:10:45. Explicit.
Linux.

Johninsc describes how he found Linux

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hpr410 :: How I found Linux Part 6 hosted by monsterb

Monday, 2009-07-27. 00:28:06. Explicit.
Samba, Suse, Gentoo.

Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users

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hpr376 :: How I Found Linux 005 hosted by monsterb

Tuesday, 2009-06-09. 00:29:01. Explicit.
mainframe, Redhat, Ubuntu, Puppy Linux, Chess Griffin.

Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users

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hpr370 :: How I Found Linux 004 hosted by monsterb

Monday, 2009-06-01. 00:29:15. Explicit.
Fedora, KDE, Graphic art, Redhat, Slackware, Debian, Library computers.

Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users

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hpr360 :: How I found Linux 3 hosted by monsterb

Tuesday, 2009-05-19. 00:27:24. Explicit.
linux.

Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users

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hpr350 :: How I found Linux 002 hosted by monsterb

Tuesday, 2009-05-05. 00:28:14. Explicit.
Linux.

Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users

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hpr348 :: How I Found Linux 001 hosted by monsterb

Thursday, 2009-04-30. 00:29:54. Explicit.
Linux.

Monsterb introduces audio clips sent in by Linux users

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