[TriLUG] Waxing Nastolgic.

Sun Jun 2 10:36:43 EDT 2024

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 8:05 AM Bill Trautman via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Rofl,  I was going to reach for my 15 or so for OS/2 (Yes I am that old
> too).
>
> I initially came to know about Linux through a Co-op at IBM,  Erick Troan

(might have the spelling off there). Met him in 1993 when I moved to the
> Triangle from up North on the IBM plan.  He would have been 2nd gen IBM but
> decided to join this new startup called Red Hat.   He was all excited about
> it and I can see why.  It would take years before I came back to it as part
> of the LTC (Linux Technology Center) at IBM.
>

Eric Troan is credited as being Red Hat's earliest engineer and was known
for his passion toward the whole "changing the world" part of open source.
He went on to be a founder of both rPath and then Pendo.

His father Larry was an IBMer who joined Red Hat in 2003 and was hugely
impactful up through his untimely passing in 2016. It seems everyone had
stories of how he especially embodied Red Hat's culture of openness and
collaboration, and generally was always ready to help people.

> In the time in between, I kept my eye on it and watched the SCO litigation
> and was pulling heavily for SCO to go down.   Talk about a beast that would
> not die.
>
> In 2017, I had the opportunity (read IBM retired my ass) to start a second
> career and decided it was time to get serious (Not that my LTC time was not
> serious,  just not long enough) about my now serious interest in it.  It
> was during the gap between being at IBM and being at my new Employer that I
> joined TriLUG.  I really enjoyed the meetings at NC State.  The pre meeting
> talks with folks were always interesting and folks brought their problems
> and helped others with answers.   Then there was the meeting itself with
> generally an very interesting topic and the have a job, need a job portion
> of the meeting.   I think it would be great to get us back in person
> meetings but we really need to figure how to bootstrap that back and what
> form best serves the community.  I think there is still a very important
> need for the group.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 10:21 PM Sean Korb via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
> > I almost got my hands on the 14 floppies for PS/2 AIX.... but got
> > distracted.
> >
> > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 8:10 PM Scott Lambdin via TriLUG <
> > trilug at trilug.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Lol 40 floppers
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 13, 2024, 12:23 PM Pete Soper via TriLUG <
> trilug at trilug.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > I started with Slack on about 40 floppies in '93, then Yggdrasil,
> then
> > > > Redhat.
> > > > Pete
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