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Submitted by ruphus13
ruphus13 writes "Here's an interesting article on remembering the first time one used Linux. From the article, "I'm not sure if the admission that I remember my first Linux installation much more clearly than any date with my first boyfriend or my first date with my husband is a really wise thing to put in writing. I will freely admit it wasn't quite as anxiety-inducing as a date, and the long-term relationship that sprang from it taught me quite a bit about myself, how I learn, and how to passionately load kernel modules at boot...So what was your first Linux experience? If it hasn't happened yet — it is easier than ever to give it a spin without disturbing your existing operating system or data. With so many new-user friendly distributions offering liveCD and liveUSB options, trying Linux for the first time — or for the first time in a while — is risk-free and easy. Easier than dating, anyway — unless, of course, you're dating the person who pointed me to the "vesa" drivers.""
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  • A lot like my first date really... ended in a lot of shame and crying.

  • Actually, when I was younger, it was "hacking" away with stuff like PC-Dos, autoexec.bat and config.sys that gave you some geek credentials. The Unix boxes were controlled by a small clique of control freaks in our Uni. Sure we got to do neat stuff with databases - with computers that were capable of less than the cell phone I bought this month for 40 euros. It did have theoretically unlimited storage capacity - by using an infinite number of magnetic tape reels. The 'Net existed on paper outside US, but we

  • Would be back in '93. Spent hours downloading slackware floppies from the A and N sets at 14.4kbps, then managed to get them installed, got SLIP up and running and NFS mounted the WUSTL slackware repository to finish up the install.

    didn't have enough RAM for X (386sx20, 6 megs of RAM, 100M hard drive, no CD), so web browsing was lynx.... but i could do it on both the console and a serial attached terminal, so that was darn cool.

    Yeah, the first time kind of hurt, but it's gotten a lot better since then.

VMS must die!

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