[lug] Happy 30th, Linux

[Matt James]

While I had exposure to Linux in the late 90's (I had a Sun UltraSpark 10
that was given to me and I set up in my basement and ran a website using
Apache on Solaris - I know not technically Linux, but close), I didn't
really start using it until the early 2000's.  My first real "use" was a
distro called IPCop and I used that as my firewall / router for many years
in both my home environment and in a business environment since it allowed
me to do many things that you couldn't do without going to (at the time)
cost prohibitive solutions.  As I moved on in my career and started working
with more industrial type applications that required as close to 100%
uptime as possible, I started working with RHEL / CentOS.  My first "real"
Linux desktop was Ubuntu on a HP Z420 workstation in the 2010's.

Matt

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 11:18 AM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> So far, every response has been people who started Linux in the 20th
> century. I'd like to hear from people who started more recently, like
> in the 21st century, or the 00's, or the 10's, or the 20's. What was
> your motive, how do you like Linux so far?
>
> SteveT
>
> John Karns said on Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:34:27 -0400
>
> >1993, IIRC - Yggdrasil live CD. Then Slackware.
> >
> >==
> >John
> >
> >On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 3:22 PM Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net>
> >wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 25 Aug 2021 11:55:01 -0600
> >> Greg Dickinson wrote:
> >>
> >> > Since 1994: Skackware and kermel 0.94.  I downloaded the disks (30
> >> > or so) at work at CU and used their 10 base T connection.  It was
> >> > the only way to get it since I only had a 2400 baud modem at home.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I think I didn't try downloading any ISOs until the 56K days. I
> >> think I didn't use dialup for anything but e-mail and BBSing until
> >> at least 19.2.
> >>
> >> I'm pretty sure for RH5.2 I went to SoftPro and bought the boxed
> >> edition. So I never experienced the joy of the many multi-disk
> >> install.
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