Introductions and Current Status

[Michael Havens]

so where fo you work?

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Gerard Snitselaar <dev at snitselaar.org>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.
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