[ale] non-technical Linux question

[Pete Hardie]

I had to learn UNIX for a compiler class in college, and managed to snag a
3B1 a few years later; eventaully found Yggdrasil for my first Linux
distro; switched to Red Hat by early 90's, Fedora when it stabilized


On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Tom Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net>wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Boris Borisov wrote:
>
>  I've read the JD bio from the announcement for the Thursday meeting and
>> He says that got introduced to
>> world of Linux in 1993 ...
>>
>>
>> What is your first encounter with Linux/Unix world?
>>
>>  <<snip>>
> First Unix (owned by self) was a Fortune 16:32 6800 machine I got from my
> Grandfather's estate (??1977). Didn't have good connections with any
> community - so that lasted perhaps 2 years and didn't learn quite as much
> as I should have.
>
> First Linux successfully working was a Red Hat CD - a friend came by and
> managed to get my printer working, although that was the third or fourth
> install attempted. ? 1995-6 time period?
>
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