[GRLUG] Describe your intro to Linux

[Justin Denick]

About four years ago I got my first computer. It had windows xp, and after
about 30 re-installs, I got sick of cracking stupid text editors, and
compression utilities.
I got a job as an it guy with Godwin and he introduced me to Mandrake 10,
and there I was on my way. The shell was really interesting i think. The
speed and easy the cli brings to computing for a profession! "urpmi this"
"rm that" Then I started writing shell scripts to do all sorts of jobs.
Those were fun, but some were pretty insane, like the sasquatch that
purposed to reinstall every OS on the network from a live CD with icons.
Gentoo is my OS now and I will flame, i just have to, so just let it go, my
heart is no longer faint :-).

Now I'm trying to make people "efficient" by providing "an intuitive UI"
while adhering to seeming ever changing business logic.

I feel like I've learned a lot in the past four years, I still have and use
the computer, but I'm no closer to defining "efficient" nor "intuitive" It
works for me, but my screen is better and I know where the buttons are,
cause I put them there. So how do you make the program better? Stupid
shell... Shoulda stuck with Mr. Ballmer...

Any ways, I love Linux just like I love Beer. Though, I'm not nearly as
brand loyal to the latter, since aspirin is a distro agnostic dependency, it
won't matter.



On Nov 15, 2007 10:57 AM, Bruce Smith <blubdog at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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