First Linux Experience

[tjones at fastq.com]

Quoting "Wagner, Steven G" <digital9ja at cox.net>:

> With Betty posting about RH9 I got thinking about my first experience with
> Linux. RH6.2 (Cartman) on a dual boot Pentium Pro 233MZ with Winbloze '98.
> feh, last time I paid M$ for anything!
> 
> Anyway, I'd be interested to hear about other member's first experiences
> with Linux and what you're using today. I'm now running OPENSUSE 10.1 on
> laptop and desktop (though desktop will be reverting back to hardened Gentoo
> as soon as I get some free time).
> 
> Viva Linus!
> 
> Long Live LAMP!
> 
> www.gentoo.org
> www.apache.org
> http://dev.mysql.com/
> www.php.net/
> 
> ...because Windows/IIS/MySQL/PHP = WIMP!
> 
> Check it out:
> http://digital9ja.tripod.com
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About halfway through 1995 I bought a new computer.  I remember hurrying to get
one so I wouldn't get stuck with Windows95, which I believe came out in August
of that year.  I also ordered FreeBSD, but being clueless about Unix, it didn't
quite work out.  

When RedHat 4.0 came out in 1996, I read some good reviews and ordered it
shortly thereafter.  Almost everything "just worked" right out of the box,
including X.  I couldn't, though, figure out how to get it to use the modem.  A
co-worker who had been into Linux about 6 months longer then I had gave me a
chat script to use with expect for modem dialling and logging in to a ppp session.

I won't say that Linux changed my life, but it has enabled me to learn enough to
leverage into a living, so I guess I owe Linus at least a pizza.

TJ

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