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. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss