[GRLUG] Describe your intro to Linux

[Olding, Jim]

I started in late '96, doing part time work at a local ISP where my
first experience with Linux was them setting me down in front of a
terminal and saying 'Type in man vi, read it, and go from there'.
Eventually I managed to 'sneak' a copy of Slackware home on install
floppies to mess around with on my own time.  Bitter memories of trying
to setup a PPP connection with command line scripts haunt me to this
day.

Since then, I've used it on and off as primary OS or in a dual boot
setup.

-----Original Message-----
From: grlug-bounces at grlug.org [mailto:grlug-bounces at grlug.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Romanow
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:38 PM
To: grlug at grlug.org
Subject: [GRLUG] Describe your intro to Linux

Bob Kline wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 14, 2007 9:51 PM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org 
> <mailto:jtr at jrichards.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:42:32PM -0500, Godwin wrote:
>     > Welcome in deed Steve!  Good to have someone with "long time"
>     knowledge...  ;-)
>
>     Speaking of that, and completely off the topic of this thread, I
>     have used
>     Linux now for ten years.  Who on this list has been using it
>     longer than that?
>
>     --
>     john-thomas
>     -----
>
Wow, good topic.

I think I am sitting at 1996, I worked for Inland Truck Parts in KC, Mo.
My boss said we could run anything on our laptops EXCEPT a product from
Redmond.  So I had Redhat installed on a Fujitsu Lifebook.  I was too
much of a noob, I didnt install it, my friend Dean (a yooper) installed
it.  For personal full time use, that'd prob be 2002 or so.  I think it
was when I realized the only way I could have a completely legal system
(because I was broke) was to depend on FOSS.
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