[TriLUG] Waxing Nastolgic.

[Sean Korb via TriLUG]

In 1995 I was struggling to graduate ad Eric and Donnie were in my computer
engineering classes being brilliant. Tom Miller had pointed employees 1
through three to the pair and Troy helped quite a bit too.They showed me
the two 50Mhz machines they compiled Linux on and ran anaconda (weird how
that’s a completely different thing now) for automated installs and TUI
interfaces for the manual install. Then fiddling with X. It was super cool
but I thought System V was the way to go or at least BSD.  By 1998 I was
employed by NCSU and I was helping a couple of students figure out how to
get a Red Hat Linux workstation on the Athena network with automated
deployment.

It all seemed to move so fast back then.  I started college in 1991 hearing
rumors of Linux but I was to busy with my little Macintosh hoping someone
would give me a copy of apples A/UX while connecting to AT&T machines over
a 2400 modem.  Uphill, both ways, on fire and we liked it!

Sean Korb spkorb at gmail.com http://spkorb.org (est 1994)
"Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso



On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 3:14 PM James T via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Maybe due to getting into weekend mode,  I'm reflecting on things.
>
> Just realized with my recent upgrade to Fedora 40,  how many releases that
> has been.  I started my desktop use of linux while it was still RedHat. NOT
> RHEL , RedHat 7.X Box set.   That was before my youngest was born. Now she
> is graduating college.   Been with Fedora ever since Version 1. It's
> amazing how much it has improved in that time.
>
> How many others have a long desktop history with Linux?  And your distro
> of choice?
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