[GRLUG] Describe your intro to Linux

[Bruce Smith]

I still have my first Linux CD: Yggdrasil dated "Fall 1994".  I ran
across the media the other day and have been meaning to take a photo
of the CD and post it on my web site.

At the time I was trying to justify the money to buy a entry level
HP-UX workstation for home to get rid of Windows.  Then a Unix tech
support person from a major computer company told me to try Linux to
save money.  That was the first time I'd heard of Linux.  I ordered my
Yggdrasil CD shortly after that.

I've been Windows-FREE on my primary home and work desktops since
1996.  Windows-95 was my last desktop M$ OS.  I have XP running in
VMware for a couple infrequent tasks at work that require Windows.

I started with Yggdrasil, moved to Slackware 3.0, moved to Redhat 4.2
thru 9, moved to Fedora core one, then on to SuSE 9.? when Fedora
pissed me, and recently to Ubuntu when I couldn't take any more of the
SuSE 10.2 package management problems.  I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 right
now to send this email.  I've played with a number of other distros
over the years which never made it to my primary desktop (really hated
Gentoo, I know a lot of people love it, sorry).

At work I admin a half-dozen Redhat Enterprise servers, and a variety
of other free distros which function as servers.

For awhile I created my own Redhat/Fedora clone distro.  I'm currently
a developer on the Devil Linux distro (devil-linux.org).

I've also screwed around with Ubuntu and YellowDog Linux on the PPC
Mac and Debian on HP PA-RISC workstations.

Is that enough rambling?  :-)

 - BS