I can't remember exactly when I first used Linux. Probably around 1993-94 when it was a 2 floppy set, but reading your email lead me to curiously search for my name on usenet, and I was surprised to find my very first time I posted something on the Internets....While I started using the Internet (downloads from ftp sites and irc mostly) in fall 1991, it was spring 1992 when I first posted online...(not BBS, but the Internets) http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.pakistan/browse_thread/thread/b9556e7bc1992973/c61684bd6fbdc825?q=asim+beg#c61684bd6fbdc825 so Linux 1993/94? Internet Sep 1991 (mostly Usenet, ftp, irc) First post Apr 1992 *Asim Baig* Cognizo Technologies 6950 France Ave S, Suite 218 Edina, MN 55435 w: (952) 955-6052 x101 c: (612) 382-7474 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet the Cognizo Team <http://www.cognizo.com/> Kris Browne wrote: > When, why, and how did you start using Linux? > > Wow... Let's see here. I know when I started using Linux Slackware 1 > was current, so that puts it around 1993. At the time, I was looking > for something with more current development than the Minix I had been > using before that. > > Minix had spoiled me with virtual consoles, command line completion, > and a ton of other things which DOS couldn't even think to deliver at > the time. However, Andy Tanenbaum famously had no desire to expand it > to a general purpose system. BSD was still shackled by ATT, so Linux > became the next logical choice. > > Around 1994 I was hosting a BBS. Desqview was a royal pain to use, and > there were no other real useful DOS mutltaskers. In the end, I ran > DOSemu on top of Linux to host multiple nodes of my BBS, which ended > up using less overhead and provided better performance than Deskview did. > > For the past nearly 20 years, my desktop systems have been almost > exclusively Unix systems of some sort, and most of that has been on > Slackware or some other Linux flavor. > > > Kris Browne > kris.browne at gmail.com <mailto:kris.browne at gmail.com> > 612-353-6969 > 612-408-4431 > http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne > > "the least expensive, most bug-free line of code is the one you didn't > have to write." - Steve Jobs > > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 21:42, Jason Hsu, Linux user > <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com <mailto:jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com>> wrote: > > When, why, and how did you start using Linux? > > I started using Linux 3 years ago. The reasons I started using > Linux were: > 1. I had heard about how Windows was full of security holes. It > also seemed that security threats only grew over time. > 2. I had heard that support for Windows 98 (my main OS at the > time) was about to be terminated and that this was even more > vulnerable to security threats than Windows XP. I wasn't about to > "upgrade" my main computer from Windows 98 due to the expense and > trouble of doing so. > 3. I heard that Windows Vista was nasty - a quantum leap forward > in bloatware that was slow even on many NEW computers. I also > heard that Vista didn't work with many items of older hardware > like printers, scanners, etc. > 4. I'm cheap. My attitude towards computers can be summed up by, > "If it ain't broke, don't replace it." I didn't think Windows XP > was that much better than 98 or 98 that much better than 95. But > I noticed that it took more RAM, hard drive space, processor > power, etc. to do exactly the same things we had done 10 years > earlier. At the same time, I noticed that there weren't many > killer apps (like the Internet in the 1990s), so I felt that we > should be able to keep using the same computer for 5-10 years. > 5. I'm green. I thought it was scandalous that so many computers > get trashed each year NOT because some critical component failed > but because the OS failed or was declared obsolete. To me, the > only good reason to get rid of a computer is because it breaks and > cannot be repaired. > > So I bought a used IBM NetVista desktop computer (256 MB of RAM, 1 > GHz processor, 20 GB hard drive, built in 2001, originally > equipped with Windows 2000, which had been removed for sale) for > $50 from a local used computer dealer. I also bought a KVM switch > so I could switch between the older computer and the newer one. I > used this newer used computer for going online and used the old > computer with Windows 98 strictly offline. (I still have and use > this old computer, which I bought new in 2000. It had a 466 MHz > processor and a 4.3 GB hard drive. It originally had just 128 MB > of RAM, but I upgraded it to 384 MB of RAM. I just recently > replaced the Windows 98 setup with Linux.) > > Over the last 3 years, I have been doing more and more stuff in > Linux and less and less in Windows. My first distro was Fedora > Core 1, because the CD came with the book _Linux For Non-Geeks_. > Then I used Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu. (I > dabbled with Debian but couldn't get it configured properly.) I > recently switched to antiX Linux. As I mentioned before, it's the > most lightweight and user-friendly distro with more than 20,000 > programs in the repository due to the Debian repository > compatibility. It's the best of both worlds. > > -- > Jason Hsu, Linux user <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com > <mailto:jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com>> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100203/4cfa440a/attachment.htm