Introductions and Current Status

[Gerard Snitselaar]

On Mon Nov 14 11, Nathan England wrote:
> Hello Hello,
> 
> Many of us have been on this list for years and years, while others have been 
> here only a few months. It's fun to reminisce of the older days and how we got 
> into computers and Linux.  Joe recently asked if anyone had a need for 3.5" 
> diskettes and it made me think of when I first got started in computers and 
> where I'm at now. 
> 
> I'll start it off, how about you? When did you get started with Linux, how did 
> you find it? What are you doing with it now?
> 

Necro time. :) I'm catching up on reading the list. I guess I've been
a bit lax lately. I can't remember if I first learned about Linux in
spring '96 or not. I don't think it ran on nubus powerpc systems at
that time so it didn't matter. I do know I saw it on my roomate's
laptop in Moscow that fall. When I got back home in the summer of '97
I installed it on an old 486 using a iomega jazz drive on the parallel
port as the hdd so I could work on assignments for comp sci while I
was commuting that summer. Since then I've always had at least one
system running it.

I use every day at work and have been since we started shipping linux
based systems in 2003-4. Most of my time is spent fixing bugs in our
hardened drivers or userspace tools, determining if a problem is in
our code or the code RH ships, looking at kernel dumps, or updating a
release to support the latest RHEL update release.