How did you get started?

s0lar said:
Agree but he still deserves respect for what he accomplished.
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I respect what he did back in the 80’s, but I have no respect for the man at all.

s0lar said:
That’s a bit of a stretch.
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Not really. A lot of things are inevitable, but the credit goes to the first person who does it. Also, there are so many more people working behind the scenes in every industry, doing better, more important things. They’re just not as recognized because they don’t self promote, or don’t work on things that are made public.
 
Nobodies going to mention Hans Reiser and ReiserFS?!?

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Hans Reiser Leads Police to Nina's Body

Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer convicted in April of killing his wife, Nina Reiser, has led authorities to her body in the Oakland hills, one of his attorneys has confirmed. The Oakland Police Department also confirms a body was found Monday, but the remains "have not yet been positively...
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wanted to start a home server, installed it on a old machine, now i have 2 enterprise servers running in a rack, funny to say addictions arise very easily xD
 
Got a vac job doing a bit of helping out work in presales for a document management system. Setting up for demos, troubleshooting, testing, doing demos etc.
System ran on sunos 4.1.3, hpux or aix so I got to play on all three platforms.
Never really looked back.
 
Brother brought home Red Hat and subsequently SUSE in the early 2000s and I started playing around.

Went overseas and got back and got a new PC. Installed debian via netinstall and my own DE via aptitude and used that exclusively for three years, the CLI "GUI" package manager.

Tried some FreeBSD and then built Linux From Scratch.

Have tried some Red Hat again lately because I'm not very familiar with non-debian Linux.

Also set up my first apache server on Linux and taught myself what was then XHTML and CSS.

I see my knowledge today of CSS is rather rudimentary as that has changed quite a bit.

They were also the days I was on IRC using irssi and screen.
 
We had an Acer D725 laptop that belonged to my parents, which I appropriated over time (as kids do).

Eventually, Windows Vista crashed and I didn't know how to fix it. Went to my neighbour for help (he worked as an IT admin) and he loaded up this thing called "Fedora Linux", which he downloaded using a "torrent". It was all foreign to me at the time. Now I think it was one of the best things that could have happened.

And yes, it seems like I'm a lot younger than you guys. :p
 
I was counting pennies in the 2008 financial crash and my second hand desktop running windows was horrendously slow, so I bought an ubuntu book which came with an installer
 
oldhat said:
Please share your personal experiences. How did you get started with Unix, BSD or Linux?
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I did an MCSE right out of school back when it first came out and was the "in" thing. Got a job supporting windows.
I then discovered IRC.. and mis-spent my youth there. However it was while chatting to some very clever peeps (some ex Lagnet people may remember jus, mousepad and bje) that I was recommend to look at FreeBSD to solve a problem i had at a client. Bugging them constantly with questions and the rest of #unix back then and I ultimately got to realize how powerful and awesome *nix OS's are.

And the rest is pretty much history lol.
 
In the late nineties one of my high school friends introduced me to Redhat linux and then later the Cape Town Linux User Group (CLUG).

Through the CLUG forums I got my first job as a Perl developer on Solaris. ... I still work at the same telco now almost 18years later.

Weird how messing around with Linux in my spare time meant more for getting a job than my three years at Cape Tech. (j/k obviously that helped)
 
Got my paws on one of these suckers in school (2007).
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Initially the OS was locked down, but the community around it figured out how to add anything to its user interface.
I eventually had an offline form of Wikipedia loaded onto it as well as a personal wiki site that I used to take notes on it. With that I learned a bit of webhosting, Latex and messing around with Linux.
 
Started on it with a then brand new 386DX-33, with kernel 0.13. Used it for many years, till my spare machine died, and could not really afford/justify buying a new one, now I am just plain lazy, and Wife needs to use the laptop which came with WIN11, and does all I need. Still play with a RPi on occasion.
 
Linux Mint 17 on a laptop to see how good it actually is.... now on the latest MX Linux on my main machine instead. Ubuntu and Gnome is slowly becoming a dead weight on everyone's shoulders.

Almost didnt stick to it but then came Win10 and now expecially Win11 and whatever abomination Win12 will be keeps encouraging me to try.
 
Wondering, about running/booting a Linux distro, from a USB C connected SSD, on my laptop - anything lightweight, suitable.
 
I read somewhere that there were things called MUDs you could play in the cmd terminal... a week later I was at a LAN dual-booting ubuntu and had the matrix hiragana/katakana waterfall as my screensaver. I even managed to join a Q3 match while under ubuntu, 10/10 coolest autist for the whole weekend
 
I have always had an interest in hacking and so Linux was always appealing to me although I have been software developer for years on Windows. Initially installed ubuntu then mint on a netbook about 15 years ago. Then later got into Raspberry PI as a hobbyist. Recently work has got me into the ubuntu VMs on Azure. Also WSL2 is great. Loving it.
 
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