[lug] Happy 30th, Linux

[Daniel Weflen]

I started with Ubuntu Karmic Koala in 2009, after I'd saved up enough of my
grad school stipend to buy a Thinkpad. I've stuck with Ubuntu for my
personal computers since then.

My previous computer was a low-end PowerPC macbook I got for college in
2005. It was unreliable, and every update would fix two things and break
another. I've stuck with linux mainly because I've had better reliability
than with any other OS, or at least that the problems I do have seem to be
ones I can fix.

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 11:33 AM Matt James <matuse at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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