so where fo you work? On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Gerard Snitselaar wrote: > 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 > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: